Boston Manufacturing Company, 1813-1816, Waltham, Mass. (engraving by Elijah Smith).
"{By tne last quarter of the 1800s} tourists sought out the isolated or remote parts of New England, looking for an imagined world of pastoral beauty, rural independence, virtuous simplicity, and religious and ethnic homogeneity. In these years, a trip to New England came to mean an escape from the conditions of modern urban industrial life, the very life New Englanders a generation earlier had been praised (and sometimes blamed) for creating.''
-- Dona Brown, in Inventing New England
