Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-20
A BURIED CITY IN MAINE
An Ancient Fort OvcrgrOWn by Aged
OakS-PaVements, Cutters and n
Canal Unearthed-The ArchaeOIO-
gists PuZzied.

An Ancient Fort OvergrOVVn by Aged
OakS-PaVements, Cutters and a
Canal Unearthed-The ArchaeOIO.
gists Puzzled.
The last "field day" of the Maine
Historical Society was enlivened by an
address from Mr.. II. K. Sewell, who said
that at a special meeting of the society,
held at Augusta, in February, 1859, the
question of the existence of paved
streets at Pemaquid was discussed,
some alleging ocular demonstration,
and others denying the fact. On motion
of the Hon. J. w. Bradbury, large
committee of the society was appointed
to visit the spot. On the 26th of August
following, that committee proceeded to
Bristol, and found the half had not been
told, for sections of pavements, ar
tificially built-of beach cobble stones,
with perfect cutters and curbings, were
opened ane examined, unearthed from
the depth of foot or more of soil, above
which the tall-grown grass had long
waved and often been shorn and made
into hay.
Further examination disclosed other
facts, showing that Maine had mystic
rious but buried history, to uoearth which
the citizens of Bristol were promised a
field day exercise in two years from that
date by this society, on condition that
they would make fuller explanations of
their ancient remains, and gather up for
the uae of the society all the fragments
of history within reach, and special
committee was organized to take this duty
in charge, the remarkable results of
whose efforts in developing the arch@ DO
gy of this spot have seemed to justifY 7
The recommendation that a granite shaft
here be raised to the interests of the his
tory of Name, to mark the ''beginnings''
of New England here uncovered.
J. ii. HackletoD, of Pemsquid, as the
organ of the sub committee having in
charge the exhibit of newly discovered
remains, gave most full and intensely
interesting detail of facts, relics aud ira
ditions, supported by affidavits of living
eyeswitnesses, showing that in 1885 a
fragment of gIsyestOne was turned out
by the plow near the ancient burial
ground of jamestown, marked with the
date of 1905. He exhibited lesden
ornament, apparently tag to q roll or
piece of cloth, dug up at n. HarbOr in
1858, bearing date 1910, and English let
ter II. in the centre. The affidavit of Mr..
Fasset, that in 1858 the ancient canal
showed remains of four feet high, deer,
and wide, bearing at that date maple trees
eighteen inches iu diameter. He alsO eX-
hibited pipes from the apparent ruins of
an ancient factory three of the patterns Of
clay, in all respects ike pipes cissslfied,
marked, and arranged in a museum of
tobacco pipes in Guildhall, London, be-
longing to the times of James the First
and Charles the Second Of England, seen
there by Mr.. Dean, and now compared
with the specimens shown. Spoons
of the pattern of the Elizsbethan
period, and in all respects Ike those
dug up at GosnGld's landing On the Eliza
beth islands, and found here, and were
shown. Mr.. Hakleton also exhibited
shot found in 3 locality of n. Harbor,
where heaps of shot from the size of a
bullet to No. have been taken out, fifty
pounds at time, and thirty two pounds
by weight, during the past five years, by
his aff1ant, Joshua Thompson, of n.
Harbor.
At this place are the ruins of an al
cient fort, fifty.two feet by fifty-one
feet, walls five feet thick, which forty
seven years ago was overgrown with very
large esks, now cleared off. Full
descriptions of the streets of jamestown,
pavements, remains of smitheries, ss
they were half century ago, were given
by eye witnesses and laborers who ha6
been employed to remove the ruins and
level the streets, fill up the cellars and
Jig up the pavements, and erase The
remains.