Excerpt from Wickes' Hand Book of Sharon, Mass;, The Healthiest Town in New England Sharon is 17 miles from Boston and 25 from Providence, on the main line of the Providence Division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. There are t'welve trains from Boston each week day and four on Sunday. Time of trains from Boston, twenty-seven to forty min utes. This road is one of the oldest, best equipped and most carefully managed roads in the country. It crosses no draw bridges, is double-tracked with, heavy steel rails its entire length, and the trains are supplied with plenty of cars, so each passenger can have a seat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.