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Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield, Mass.

Rosson's Quannapowitt Grove, circa 1910

Item

Title
Rosson's Quannapowitt Grove, circa 1910
Description
"Located at the northern end of Lake Quannapowitt, Rosson's Quannapowitt Picnic Grove and Boat Livery may have been a stop along the Wakefield and Stoneham Street Railway system's Lakeside Route. Moxie, first sold as a soft drink in 1884, was prominently featured on the front of the building. Moxie outsold Coca-Cola until the 1920s. In 1910, the Town was taking action to buy most of the land at the north end of the Lake, from Rosson's Grove to the Boston Ice House, and to use funding from the Metropolitan Park Service parks program. In October 1910, Town representatives and the Park Service 'tramped through the marshes at Rosson's Grove' to contemplate the validity of making a road connecting North Avenue and Main Street." -- Text from calendar by Jayne M. D'Onofrio.
Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2005
Photo courtesy of the Wakefield Historical Society.
Contributor
Institution: Lucius Beebe Memorial Library
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department (Wakefield, Mass.)
D'Onofrio, Jayne M.
Coverage
Massachusetts--Middlesex (county)--Wakefield
Quannapowitt, Lake (Mass.)
Date
ca. 1910
Format
image/jpeg
Publisher
Wakefield Municipal Gas & Light Department
Subject
Recreation areas
Type
still image
Photographs
Original Format
1 picture : b&w
Extent
16 x 31 cm.