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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Massachusetts, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts (search)
Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts a city of 25,000 pop., on Taunton River, near its entrance to Mt. Hope Bay. Has a good harbor, and is one of the largest cotton manufacturing cities in New England. The commerce, both foreign and domestic, is quite extensive.
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company), Massachusetts, Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts (search)
Taunton, Bristol County, Massachusetts a city of 15,376* pop., on Taunton River. Extensively engaged in manufacturing locomotives and other machinery.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
to Green land, and were driven by adverse winds from Greenland to the shores of Labrador; that the voyage was often repeated; that the coasts of America were extensively explored, and colonies established on the shores of Nova Scotia or Newfoundland. It is even suggested, that these early adventurers anchored near the harbor of Boston, or in the bays of New Jersey; and Danish antiquaries believe that Northmen entered the waters of Rhode Island, inscribed their adventures on the rocks of Taunton River, gave the name of Vinland to the south-east coasts of New England, and explored the inlets of our country as far as Carolina. But the story of the colonization of America by North-men, rests on narratives, mythological in form, and obscure in meaning; ancient, yet not contemporary. The chief document is an interpolation in the history of Chap. I.} Sturleson, whose zealous curiosity could hardly have neglected the discovery of a continent. The geographical details are too vague to su