East Branch

East Branch is the name of several places in the United States:

  • East Branch (Massachusetts), a river in the town of Westport, Massachusetts
  • East Branch, New York
  • East Branch, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania
  • East Branch, Warren County, Pennsylvania

Famous quotes containing the words east and/or branch:

    “At length, having come up fifty rods off, he uttered one of those prolonged howls, as if calling on the god of loons to aid him, and immediately there came a wind from the east and rippled the surface, and filled the whole air with misty rain, and I was impressed as if it were the prayer of the loon answered, and his god was angry with me; and so I left him disappearing far away on the tumultuous surface.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “That man’s the true Conservative
    Who lops the mouldered branch away.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)