A Narrative History of the Town of Cohasset, Massachusetts

xviii, 561 pp. Includes three fold-outs, facsimiles and photographs throughout. Includes: What and Where; Making the Rock Bottom; How the Soil Came; Clothed with Vegetation; The Aborigines; The "Quonahassit" Pioneers; A Bone of Contention; Dividing the Land; The First Homes; The Autonomy of a Precinct; An Highway Shall Be There and a Way; Industries and Firesides; Separation from Hingham; The Revolutionary War; Recuperating During the First Years of the Republic; The Militia and the War of 1812; The Town's Church and its Divorce; School Progress and the Academy; The Fishing Industry; The Fishing Industry (Continued); Stagecoach, Packet, and Railway; Wrecks, Wrecking, and Minot Light; The Civil War; Up to Date; Botany of the Town.