The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1871-10-07
A Buried City i'm Maine.

"A DuI1cu lily LII MdIu0.
The last "fie1d day. of the Maine
Historical Society was enlivened by
an address from Mr.. R. X. Sewall,
who said that at a special meeting of
the Society, held at Augusta, in Feb
ruary, 1869, the question of the exis-
! tence of paved streets at Pemaquid
was discussed, some alleging ocular
demonstration, and others denying
the. fact. On motion of the Hon j. W.
Bradbury, a large committee of the
society was appointed to visitthe spot.
On the 26th of August following, that
committee proceeded to Bristol, and
found the half had not been told, for
sections of pavements, artistically
built of beach cobble stones, with per-
feet cutters and curbings, We're opened
| and examined, unearthed from the
depth of q foot or more Of soil, above
which the llrgrewn grass had long
waved, and often been shorsts and
made into hay. u
Further examination disclosed other
facts, showing that Maine had q
mysterious but buried history, to nm
earth which the citizens of Bristol
were promised field day exercise in
two years from that date by this So
ciety, ON condition that they would
make fuller explorations of their anci-
ent remains, and gather up for the use
OF the Society all fragments of history
within reach, and a special committee
was organized to take this duty in
charge, the remarkable results of
whose efforts in developing the ar
chRology of this spot have seemed to
Justify the recommendation, that a
granite shaft shall here be raised in
the interests of the history of Maine,
to mark the beginnings of New En-
gland here uncovered. :" - 49, ..a.s
], H. Hackleton of Pemaquid, as the
organ of the. subcommittee, having
charge the exhibit of newly discov-
cred remains, gave a most full and in
tensely interesting detail of the facts,
relics and traditions, supported by affi-
davits of living, eye-witnesses, show
ing that in 1886 a fragment ofa grave
stone was turned out by the plow
near the ancient burial ground of
jamestown, marked with the date of
1905. He exhibited a leaden orna-
ment, apparently tag to a roll or
piece. of cloth, dug up at n. Harb0r,
in 1857, bearing date 1910, an English
letter" L, )" In the centre. The affi-
davit of Mr.. Fasset, that in 1853 the
ancient canal showed remains four
feet high, deep and wide, bearing at
that date maple trees eighteen inches
in diameter. He also exhibited pipes
from the apparent ruins of an ancient
factory there of the patterns of pipes
of clay, in all respects like pipes CLASH
fed, marked and arranged in a museum
of tobacco pipes iasG sGuildhall, London,
belonging to the times of James the
| and Charles III of England, seen there
by Mr.. Dean, and now compared with
the specimens shown. Spoons of the
pattern of the Ehzabethan period, and
in all respects like those dug up at
Gosnold's Landing, ON the Elizabeth
Islands, are found here and were
shown. Mr.. Hackleton also exhibited
shot found in the locality of n. Har-
Dor, where heaps of shot from the
size of bullet to a No. 2 have been
taken out, fifty pounds at a time, and
thirty two pounds by weight, within
the past five years, by his affiant,
Joshua Thompson of N. Harbor.
At this place are ruins of an ancient
fort, SO by 81 feet, walls 5 feet thick,
which, forty seven years ago, was
overgrown with very large oaks, now
cleared off. Full descriptions of the
streets of jamestown, pavements, re-
mains of smithefies, as they were half
a century ago, were given byeye-witz
Resses and laborefs who had been em-
ployed to remove the ruins and level
the streets, fill up the cellars and dig
up the paYements, and erase the re-
mains. asaiin sstt ft 3 3fa