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PREFACE
The triad of volumes dealing with the older
American Historic Towns along or near
the eastern coast is now complete. The three
volumes, like the chapters of which they are
composed, have their inevitable limitations.
While neither in historical value nor in literary
quality has it proved practicable to secure a
uniformity of standard, editor and contributors
have done the best they could, and they now
feel assured that the series has proved its
right to exist. It is quickening interest in our
historic towns, bringing to light important
facts, picturing for the patriotic reader who
may not be free to make personal visits the
places he would visit if he could, and making
clear to him many things he would not be
likely to learn in the towns themselves, however
long a stay he might be free to make.
