Summer days down East (1883) (14777703402)

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Title: Summer days down East
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Portland : Chisholm Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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eyondis West Harpswell, with its two churches. Two miles farther out risethe fishermens cottages and summer-hotels, on the point, in full viewof the sea. Three hundred people live on Orrs Island (three miles byone in area), a mile from the shore, and joined to Great Island by arickety bridge. Twenty years ago, the gathering of clams was a great in-dustry at Harpswell, and 2,500 barrels have been sent hence in a singleyear. There are now half-a-dozen large dealers in fish here, sending offabout 20,000 quintals yearly. There are many old houses hereabouts, and older traditions, whicheven the great thousand-page History of Brunswick, Topsham, andHarpswell, published in 1878, has failed to record. During the Revo-lution a picturesque marine guerilla warfare was carried on among theislands, between Tory, Provincial, and British boats and the local min-ute-men. In 1775 the enemy was beaten off in an attack on CondysHarbor, by antique wall-pieces and swivels, handled by the Harpswellmilitia.
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Top sham, Bowdoinham, and Richmond. 21 A branch line of railway extends from Brunswick 9 miles eastward toBath, and another line runs 6)i miles northward to Farmington, passingthrough Leeds and Livermore, and connecting for Lewiston. Theseroutes are described farther on. (See the Index.) TOPSHAM, BOWDOINHAM, AND RICHMOND. The eastern-bound trains cross the Androscoggin River at Bruns-wick, and stop at the sister village of Topsham, near the great falls,and delighting in factories. The early history of this peaceful townwas dark with terrible tragedies, for the first three families of settlerswere massacred by the Indians. One family, living at Fultons Point,was destroyed while its head was out in search of provisions, and whenhe returned to the ashes of his home all was lost. Gyles and his wife,while harvesting corn in their field, fell under the shot of concealedsavages, and their children were led into captivity. But these victimsof the heathen were succeeded by a colony of grim Sco