Princeton Depot, Princeton, MA -coaches in front, c!900

Princeton Depot, Princeton, MA -coaches in front, c!900

Railroad stations--Massachusetts--Princeton; Stagecoaches; Horse-drawn Vehicles; Princeton (Mass.)--History

Princeton Depot located on Hubbardston Road, now Route 62, in Princeton Massachusetts. At its height in the early 1900s as many as eight trains a day passed through the station. The photograph shows the coaches that would take tourists up to the top of Mount Wachusett. Other passengers are shown waiting on the platform deck. The coach ride to the top of Mount Wachusett was a two mile uphill trip.

The New England Photograph Co.

C/WMARS http://www.cwmars.org/

1900?

Is part of the collection of the Princeton Historical Society, http://www.princetonmahistory.org housed in the Princeton Public Library, http://www.princetonpubliclibrary.org Goodnow Memorial Building, Princeton, Massachusetts.

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