In the 1870s, the business of cutting ice on Quincy Bay was considered among the most important branches of industry in Quincy. The large amount of money paid in mid-winter
Henry Leonidas Prentiss’s pedigree linked him and his son, U.S. Civil War Maj. Gen. Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss, both mid-19th century Quincyans, to the earliest days of Great Britain’s American colonies.
The Baltimore and Ohio was the first railroad in the United States, opening for commerce in 1830. Early railroads used horses and steam engines. They competed with other methods of
“If any other proof were needed that man is naturally a gregarious and social animal it could be conclusively furnished by the persistency with which he cuts roads through the