The Portland daily press., 1893-08-23

| o,;4,o ho,,se stiIl stands, near. the ruins
9" e,f4 ~ fort known as the Partridge house,
fron, NJ Partridge, owner of the estate
on NV Which ", was the city and the fort.
| There were two or three more forts built
and destroyed here prior to the stone
| fort. - fo,a
land for the man of antique proclivities.,
| He can fairly revel on the dim and
how n1scences of the beginning of
| Maine,s history. and have dinner every
dav from oceans choicest store house
| fit to set before KING,
The ground is literally full of relics OF
past civilization ana the savage oceu-
cellar wall of the barn to the Partridge
house they will show you Nahanada's
orave TX inst as they stake the spot
Where Warren fell at Bunker Hill.
If Massachusetts, had this peninsula on
her soil there would be millions in it. !"
1t would be fenced and beautiied.
statues erected, relics collected and 80
cents admission. She glories in her
here Maine had city with custom
house and paved streets when Plymouth
was in her infancy. In the inscrutable
order of events Plymouth survived and
Peinaauid persisted, and it's history large
" lies beneath the soil. will speak of
one relic only. Some 40 years ago there
was taken from the ruins OF the old fort
kettle some IS inches in diameter. 1t
was SO nearly destroyed by corrosion that
only abo11t three inches of the rim, the
heavy ears and bail were saved, the whole
bottom and sides crumbling into small
fragments when removed. / visited the
fort and locality where this aged relic
was found in company with Postmaster
~ 7 10 ,lar, Of f1,n
The settlement here is supposed to
have been Dutch from the character of
relics found They had tan yard near
the fort, cellars were deliberately tiled
with foreign stone, tunnel ran from
fort to river There is no written history
of this place. The indications are that
it was fiourishing settlement for three
miles along the western side OF Pemaqula
river, and that it was suddenly and
totally wiped out by the Indians prior,
perhaps, to the English settlement on
the east side of the river.
jill. Garland, Esq, agent of the En-
terprise steamboat company, through
whose courtesy am indebted for much
interesting information regarding ancient
Pemaquid, has built building. over
section of uncovered pavement about 10
inches below the surface. The pavement
is generally about six to eight inches be-
low, not by any means two or three rect,
as / have heard it enormously stated.
Mr. Cartland's theory is that angle
worms have been the prime factor IN
covering the pavement. 1t seems lncredl-
BILE that nature alone could do II III
couple of centuries or less
Mr.. Garland has devoted much time
and labor in collecting and preserving
mementos of this ancient and highly
interesting locality. In the building
over the pavement he has many curios
that eloquently but mutely speak OF the
dim past. He has done a good work and
should receive encouragement by all low
ers of the grand old Dirigo State to en-
large his operations. To do this sue
cessfully and with business-like method
financial aid is needed. The grounds
pertaining to the fort should be substan-
tally enclosed, tower by the great
rockn erected from the stones of the old
fort, which are fast disappearing, in fact
are now we'll nigh gone to fill the old
cellars A comm odious memorial build
ing should.be erected and the command
ants house where the officers of the Boxer
got their morning coffee the fatal day
they sailed down Pemaquid bay and met
the Enterprise be remodelled into one
for the more convenient preservation OF
relics We have only one Pemaquld.
1t is eminently historic. 1t is place
of rare beauty. 1t is accessible, only ~
miles from Portland, along a coast whose
grandeur is unequaled. A shrine here
would not only be credit to the State,
but educational and - enrolling. Let
something be done ere relic fiends lug
off the wholespeninsula. -WIWURNA.