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Subject: [GM-L] Chronicle of the history of transportation in Boston from 1631
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:58:40 EST

Mass transportation first emerged in the city in 1631, when Boston was a
peninsula connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land which is now
the South End. With no bridges and only limited access to the mainland,
transporting freight by ox cart from Winnisimet (Chelsea) to Boston was a
two day journey through Malden, Cambridge, Brighton, and Roxbury. People
traveled within the city on foot, and rarely went beyond its borders; for
most could not afford horses or wagons.

http://www.stlibrary.org/TChronicle.html

<A HREF="http://www.stlibrary.org/TChronicle.html">Chronicle: History of
Transportation in Boston</A>

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