The Portland daily press., 1894-09-10
MORE OF PEMAQUlD.
Officers of Monument Association
Astonished When They Arrived.

Astonished When They Arrived.
Pemaquid Improvement Society, as Rep
resented by j. H. Garland, Had Used
Their Property Without Their Knowl-
sedge-Had built Structures, Road and
Sidewalk and made Excavations.--Ac-
ton to be Taken
When tine historical party arrived at
Pemaquid peninsular, Thursday noon,
after the long ride of ID miles from
Damariscotta, Hon. Henry Ingalls, and
Hon. Rufus K. Sewall, of Wiscasset,
president and secretary of the Monument
Society, were astonished, not to say as
founded. by what they saw. For those
who haven't been there it may be we'll to
say that as you approach the historic
place, from the high lands above. the
scene is one of unusual beauty, even in
Maine. The salt bay, that runs up from
the distant ocean, is like an inland lake.
and into the midst of it extends this
oval peninsula where the city OF James
town was built, and on the slightly
rising end of which are thewalls of the
old fort, and the curious great square
mansion built by. Col. Dunbar in 1877.
AS you drive down across the neck of
the peninsula to the left is the little
village of Pemaquid Beach, with it's
great porgy factory. As you drive up
on to the peninsula you reach first the
jamestown hotel. Just beyond are
only bare fields, the old cemetery to the
right, the Col. Dunbar house, the re-
Gently unearthed walls of the fort and -
wnat astounded the officers of the Monu-
ment Association.
In front of the great rock in the
bastion of the fort, stone walls had been
built out, with stone towers at the cor
ners, the whole inclosing small wooden
house, through which access can be OBJ
tanned to the bastion in the rear. sur
rounding the great rock, the whole of
which is enclosed by a high board fence.
In the house are relics found about
the place, and photographs. the latter
for sale. Admission is charged to see
the bastion and the relics Thursday a
section of the fence had been removed,
and the visiting societies and assembling
people of the town and vicinity were al
lowed to enter.
Bat the remarkable part of all this Is
that the land belongs to the Monument
Society, presented to it by the Partridge
heirs, and th at the officers of the Society
had no previous knowledge of this bust
ess enterprise that had been SO well
started on their land. No wonder they
were ,astounded. A wharf had been
built at the end of the point, and a
road built across their land in front of
the fort. Placards were stuck up here
and there giving an historical statement
as to the fort, house had been built
over an uncovered section of the pave
ment, and the whole place had been
taken in charge and put into shape as a
money making enterprise.
In the house in front of the fort was
pile of handbills advertising. the place
and making various statements of which
the following are abstracts. 1t says that
the foundations of the fort have recent
: ly been unearthed by the Pemaquid I'm
provement Association. Trees, grass
and tangled bushes obscured even the
) great rock, and no person living today
knew of the existence of the foundation
wall until we dug it out. Here a noble
monument should be erected. We are
working for that object in connection
with the Pemaquid Mon umental Asso-
citation. With the small fund obtained in
canvassing the town last winter we have
laid an underground drain, built a per-
manent sidewalk over 100 feet long, dug
out about half of the foundations of the
old tower wall, built with the loose stone
two temporary towers and thick double
walls to use up the stone and still have
them handy for uss in building monu-
ment. Thus with stone and wooden
fence we have enclosed the walls about
the rock for protection, forming yard
for tools and materials to work with
The citizens of Penn quid have built a
substantial wharf close to the rocks, and
now everything is ready to procede with
the monument except the funds"
AASil SoinSS -ouOR lOilOWluS. "A pdpoF
with historical sketch will be furnished
for five cents. A card with cuts of rock
and fort house for 10 cents A certificate
with cuts of rock, wall and house for 81
and upwards. Photographs for s5 and
so cents each. With the fund thus OBJ
tanned we wish to continue the work of
excavation. We want to unearth more
of the ancient pavilgs etc. This state.
anent is signed by u. H. Garland, solic-
iting agent"
But why should he, acting for this
Pemaquid Improvement Society, 90
ahead in this way with other people s
property without asking their consent or
even letting them know anything about
it? An who is Mr.. JIG. Cartlan d2 Hon.
Rufus Sewall, secretary of the Monument
Society, says that he came from Massa-
chusetts several years ago, and is the
head and front of the Pemaquid Improve