Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1878-06-25
MOUNTAIN RESORTS
oxford County Is Full Of them.
Five More Towns OF Note.


Five More Towns OF Note.
From the Lewiston Daily JOurnal.l
ANDovER.
Audovsr, in the hill district of Oxford
County, is delightful village. Poor's
Hotel in this village is oy no means a
poor hotel. The landlord is MIR. 5.
Poor. His hotel has thirty sleeping apart
M. mis-. II commands fine views OF the
untry. There are pleasant drives. and
| be mountain brooks abound In cascades
and waterfalls which are not surpassed
10 beauty. The mountains are grand,
and some OF them compare iavoraoly
with the White Mountains. There are
also lakes and ponds with good boats q
short distance from the village. There
is team daily to the lakes when the
season begins, which makes connections
with the steamer Henry b. Simons and
the steamer on the upper lakes. There
are good facilities Tor reaching the town
viz two routes. one daily stage and the
other ,ri- weekly.-a distance Of twenty
miles over good roads. There are two
churches about mile distant from the
house. the post-otfice is also about a mile
distant There is also a telegraph con-
Meeting this village with the outside
world. The hotel is large and airy. and
has piazza on two sides OF the build
ing The brooks abound in trout, and
afford much pleasure to anglers.
Mr.. John A. French has just completed
new hotel at Andoyer. 1t has thirty
eight bedrooms; dining room % by
80; parlor q by IA; 100 lineal feet oil
piazza; a cupola. Board 81 TO $40 per
week. The house is twenty miles from
the Grand Trunk Railroad. There are
daily stages from Bryants Pond and
Bethel.
Bethel is delightful summer resort.
The drives In the vicinity are OF I'M
rivslled loneliness. There are good
hotels in the village. and tourists will
find NJ more grateful spot 10 rest the
weary.
Wa,erspout Mountain Farm House 10
Bethel is situated on the limo ofthe Grand
Tru1k railroad, and guests are conveyed
to and from the station free IRON charge
Terms rom IS TO 81 per week.
FRYEBUEG.
Fryoburg Is ono OF the most charming
villages IN Maine. IL il an old and well
shaded town on the banks OF the SacO,
and the ancient home OF the Pequaket
tribe OF Indians. The Portland aud Og-
deusb burg Railroad now leaves the tray
olcr At this delightiu! mountain resort,
with ns shaded streets and charming
drives. Visitors always admire It's
beautiful drives stretching out troE the
village into squares of from one to
twenty miles, passing Alternately through
pine groves. by broad fields, ponds.
! brooks. anl along sparkling rivers. Al
the head of tho village is Pine HUI, an
elevation OF tao hundred leeI, which IS
tavuIi.v resort as an "Ai:cr-iea walk. "
IL Is ~ SAN- pleasant h. view lrom lis
summit thu surrounding ne!ds. meadows,
pOnds and woodlands; the SAcU. wind
ing lis way through broad, green inter
Wales, and mark the departing day folding
It's nightly mantle back over village ana
town. 4 little farther to the south Is It's
larger sister, "Stark's Hill," named after
an old Indian hunter. aud is an elevation
Of SIX hundred feet. which. by It's close
proximity TO the village. and It's CON-
manding scenery. is placed by nature on
the spot mos, desirable; one mile away
is Jockey Cap the biggest boulder In
the world, rising from the level plain 10
An elevation OF over two hundred feet
natural curiosity, and always visited by
strangers. At the base OF Jockey Gap Is
cave, pointed out by tradition as the
cave and homo OF molly Ocket.' From
Jockey Caps bald head looking south, in
tull view is LovewelPs Pond, three miles
in extent, the waters of which are des-
crioed by l.. Starr King, in his Nv hite
Hills, as being more deeply dyed with
tradition than any sheet OF water in New
Eug. and Its eastern shore Is also noted
as being the battle-ground between Capt.
| Loyewell and his little band oil whites,
and The Pequakei Indian tribe under
Paugus their chIet-aud the inlet OF Fight
Brook, as being the very spot where
Paugus fell. Two miles from the village
is Martha's Grove Camp Ground, on the
banAs OF the Saco river. To this beauti-
ful locality, around It's grounds and lots,
and Swans Falls, near by, is another oil
the lovely drives OF FTyeburg. A drive
OF eight miles up an elevation OF SIX
hundred feet is Carriers HILL from the
summit OF which. looking west, is the
whole Chocorua and White Mountain
range. A. its base aud nearly under
your feet is kezar Pond, forming around
the hill complete semi-circular mirror.
rejecting down deep in its waters these
mountains piled on mountain tops, q
doubo view. Another drive OF eight
miles, takes you 10 Pleasant Mountain
| Heights, an elevation oil over two thou
sand feet. There the eye is never salts
fed Of seeing. Spread out by nature,
bound only by the far-reaching horizon,
are meadows, fields, woodlands, ponds,
rivers, lakes, mountains and hills. On
the summit OF Mt. Pleasant is q summer
house, well arranged for the enjoyment
OF excursionists. Last OF all, and per-
haps the best, is the twenty mile sail
down the Saco, passing ields, meadows,
ponds, and shady banks oil oak and pine,
and landing at Moose Rock, on the west
ern shore OF Lovewell's Pond, within one
mile OF the place OF starting.
A leading hotel at Fryeburg is the Ok
lord House, one-third OF mile from the
depot. 1t contains sixty rooms. Price
of board 81 TO $40 There is a good liy-
1ery connected with the hotel. Messrs.
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