The First Dunkin Donuts Coffee Shop - Quincy Incline Railway / Inventor Of The Donut & Lincoln Cabin
First Dunkin Donuts
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today's adventure brings me to the
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original the very first
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the one that started it all
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duncan donuts as it states right there
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the original duncan
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on the side of the building itself has a
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recording of this wednesday june 29th
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2022
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in a little area called quincy on the
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outskirts
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of boston massachusetts
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i'll start off with a piping hot
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caffeinated beverage a coffee
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aka a coffee
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from a place that i have frequented
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hundreds of times but never
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the first
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dunkin
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i mean i've been to other dunks but
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never the first one and i like this
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little painting of a car here curbside
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pickup only
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reserve parking i guess i could have
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parked here well i didn't i didn't
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pre-order though so i probably wouldn't
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be allowed to park here
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but right here you got the car but then
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you also have where it says reserved
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here
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and then also look at this
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that is quite
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a coffee the size of that is like
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a third
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of that person's torso
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that would keep you hyped and one could
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show up at any hour of the night
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to get themselves a little coffee or
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a donut that they could dunk in there
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because it's opened
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24 hours a day
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here accomplished
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it's about to happen i'm inviting you
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to join me not only here but i'm gonna
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go to some other local spots around the
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oh man area warming warm
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join me
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shall you probably should have had my
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sunglasses on when i was just doing the
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intro but i didn't
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and i probably should have a cardboard
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sleeve on this because the
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the heat is permeating through this
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on the side of what is a newer structure
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it states that this is the site of the
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original the address is 543 south artery
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in quincy massachusetts and this is a
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photo of what the original building
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looked like now inside also established
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in 1950 but after i stepped inside
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before i ordered my coffee i kind of
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perused around and noticed that they
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have a photo of what the original
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building
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looked like on the side of the wall in
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here kind of a retro feel to this place
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with the the seats little stools and
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whatnot
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on the side and they also have which is
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kind of neat the evolution of basically
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the logo itself
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so over the years morphing from what it
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originally was and then the little
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little character that they had a little
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mascot and then kind of morphing into
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the modern day
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dunkin donuts logo
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as well which is pretty neat and there's
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also
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a little more information on the side of
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this coffee cup that basically says the
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first dunkin donuts was opened in 1950
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on this site in quincy massachusetts by
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founder bill rosenberg in march 79
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the car valho family began brewing
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original dunkin donuts location and has
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owned and operated it
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ever since
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pretty dang cool i love duck and coffee
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right here off the water at this very
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beautiful residential area
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is a property
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where the man who invented some say the
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donut some say the donut hole
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here at sailor's home
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there are a lot of oh my gosh get away
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from me bugs there's like so many bugs
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out here they're like all around my face
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right here
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used to be some sort of placard
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oh they are like
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i don't know what they are biting flies
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or something out here
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out here in the woods trying to find the
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spot his name was hanson crockett
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gregory
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no affiliation with dunkin donuts other
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than the fact that
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he is said to have created
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the donut
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i thought it was kind of a neat tie-in
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and the gate is open
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see what i can find
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okay no such luck
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the individual oh my gosh these stupid
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bugs
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the picture of the donut
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is not here
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got a little more research i was
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misinformed okay i noticed this and
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stopped to to read it can't tell what
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the name of the plant is up here with
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the skull and crossbones this is very
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dangerous though
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kind of gives some information about how
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it's toxic to humans and animals however
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chicory
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you know tie into coffee
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can be used as a substitute the ground
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roots can be used as an additive to
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substitute for coffee just whatever that
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little cluster there is
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don't want to consume that he might have
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like an into the wild moment
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not good all right turns out
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my try number two for this
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was about three or four miles away from
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the spot i thought it was
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snug harbor
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sailors path
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this is a quest
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and into the club fly just by my face
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right behind my ear
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into this clearing here
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see what i can find will not be able to
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get in here however
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but i can
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from this angle
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see what i'm looking for
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recognized by the national bakers
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association
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as the inventor of the donut
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born in camden maine
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passed away here in
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quincy massachusetts back in 1921.
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look at that and it all depends on who
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you talk to whether or not
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he really invented the donut some say it
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was the doughnut hole
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the donut already existed but he was the
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first one
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right here along this very beautiful
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lake
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some say he was the one that punched the
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hole in the donut which turned it into a
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doughnut and then you got donut holes
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and now getting some fuel here
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five dollars
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and seven cents a gallon this is a full
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service station hello dog
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look at that vintage sign over there for
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the dairy freeze next to the gas station
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yeah i figured i'd just fill it up
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myself instead of having someone do it
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just traveled a few miles away over to
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the town of milton
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in this museum which i don't believe is
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open today
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but the parking area was
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and if you walk down the hill
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there is an interesting recreation of
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abraham lincoln abraham
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lincoln here
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his cabin
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an accurate representation
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built to scale
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way down here at the end of the end of
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the way i probably could have parked on
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the other side i didn't really know
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where it was i kind of traversed around
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a little bit until i found it
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this was built back in the 20s early 20s
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1920s
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i used to have lincoln logs when i was
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young
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and build little log cabins similar to
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this one
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lincoln logs abraham lincoln there were
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logs to make a log cabin there has to be
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a correlation of some sort
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this cabin is a replica of the log cabin
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which stands at abraham lincoln's
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birthplace
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in
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hogginville kentucky
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the logs of the original cabin were hewn
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together of the lincoln farmstead under
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red soil
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used as mortar
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we do not know what furnishings were in
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the original cabin at lincoln's birth a
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record suggests lincoln had a table set
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of chairs bureau feather desk cloth
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press spinning wheel
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and loom and adjacent to basic basic
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kitchen equipment the original cabin had
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a dirt floor the window may have been
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covered in oiled paper
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is what that's saying now there's no
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door oh there's a door handle
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it's locked
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can't go in
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this is awesome
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an exact replica of lincoln's
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cabin and this is looking around the
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back side of it
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pretty awesome and just like lincoln
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logs you place the wooden planks
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on top of each other they'd have the
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notches
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and it would just set right on there to
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make up the cabin itself
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right here off this major thoroughfare
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you can just see how milton and quincy
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and adam street are all pretty much in
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the same general area
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there's something very interesting at
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the top of this hill what the base of
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the hill
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leading down the hill
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the remnants of an old incline railroad
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you go to the end of this street at this
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cul-de-sac in this residential section
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there is
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this whole building
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and adjacent to that is where the
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incline railroad begins at the bottom of
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this hill
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the granite railway originally built to
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carry stone quarried for the bunker hill
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was among
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one of the first railroads in america
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dating back to
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1830
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here's a photo here
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showing of it in operation
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here's an artistic rendering of how it
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worked
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oh wow shadow of that plane just went
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over
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national historic engineering landmark
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the granite railway
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this market commemorates 150th
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anniversary
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that was in 1976
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was the 150th anniversary
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the gateway marks the foot of the old
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incline
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granite railway
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work was begun on april 1st of 1826 and
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completed in october of 1826.
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so it only took six months give or take
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not even a full year
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this represents the first car on the
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granite railway first railway in america
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what the heck
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so i've been to the first dunkin
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and now i've been to the first railway
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in america according to that placard
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that's awesome look at this
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you can still see the rock and the
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granite here
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i'm gonna try to traverse up this thing
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a little bit of work out walking up this
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i've been to a few active incline
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railroads in my day
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the last you know
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five or ten years or so the first one
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that comes to my mind it's in
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chattanooga tennessee
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there's got to be others that's the
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first one that pops into my mind
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this one is not as lengthy
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as that one this one probably only
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i don't know 150 200 yards maybe
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at least what's here left
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kind of ends right here
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but nonetheless a huge piece of railroad
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history
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incline railroad history
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hard to tell the perspective of this
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though from you know the camera's
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perspective because just to see how
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steep this is going coming up the side
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of this incline it's a little bit of a
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little bit of a walk coming up here and
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i like the fact that it has been
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documented
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you know with the plaques and whatnot
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given all the info of what this was so
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if anyone stumbles on this they're not
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wondering
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just kind of rotting away here
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in the massachusetts woods
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relics of the past serious relics of the
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past
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man that is so
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awesome
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these pulleys
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metal cables here
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and another
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very cloudy cumulonimbus type of day
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might it up at some point get a little
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rainstorm
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like there's a little rain up in those
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clouds but sunny and nice
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here in massachusetts it's been nice
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being in this area for the last few days
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it would be here at least a few days or
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more
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i've been gone for a heck of a long time
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from my homestead in celebration florida
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in fact i got to thinking because i went
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to the very first the original dunkin
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donuts today
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i went to the first starbucks
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out on the west coast on the same road
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trip and it seems like forever ago
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but i have not been home since then it
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is well into past 60 days i've almost
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lost count
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some point i'll do a tally how many days
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i've been gone
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i have a tentative
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thought in my mind of when i'll be back
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but who knows
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i changed my mind a lot
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i'm gonna head into my hotel
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relax a little bit
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and plan out the rest of my trip
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again i will be in this area for
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a few more days
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maybe even a week but i don't know
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at least a few more days
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and then i'll start
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heading back to florida at some point
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maybe possibly
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thanks for watching i really appreciate
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it
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i'll see you the next video the vlog
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is