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PORTLAND, Sept. s.-Last Thursday the Maine
| Historical Society, on their annual Held Day
excursion. visited PemaquId, the historical
peninsula in a beautiful bay on the Maine coast
| where are such extraordinary evidences OF an
| cient habitation that some Of the most promi-
nent members OF the society believe that " is
| the site Of a permanent settlement that ante
dates everything else on the Atlantic coast.
Pemaquid's unexplained pavement discovered
| about foot beneath the sod OF nay
field. has become famous IL Is man festly the
| pavement Of street. and, though crude, SHOWS
good workmanship. Beside this there are the
walls OF an old stone fort that Inquired ia the
French and Indian wars.
In 1871 the rcmaquid Monument Associa-
ton was formed including some of the most
prominent of the historians and hstory-loving
people os the state. Its object was To erect a
monument at this interesting place and TO use all
possible means for investigating and discover
Ing the ancient history Of 1t.
The owners Of the land presented TO the So
cicty that portion OF the farm which includes
the fort and the buried pavement.
One object Of the excursion Of the Maine HIS
torical Society last Thursday was to as
semble there with the Lincoln County Histor-
ical Society and this Pemaquid Monument
Society and Jointly to adopt resolutions request
ing aid from the next Legislature to assist In
building the monument and investigating the
relics buried In the ground.
When the party reached Pemaquid, Thursday
noon, after long drive from Damariscotta, the
Hon. Henry Ingalls, and the Hon. Rufus X. Sewell
of Wiscasset, President and Secretary Of the
Monument Association, were astonished, not to
say astounded by what they saw.
As you drive up on to the little peninsula that
La. al
of the fort you see only the little hotel the bare
fields, the old cemetery, the quaint old Partridge
house, built by Col Dunbar IN 1927. the recently
unearthed walls of the fort; and ON Thursday
OF the Monument Society.
In front of the great rock In the bastion OF the
fort, stone walls had been built out, with stone
towers at the corners, the whole enclosing a
small wooden house, through which access Is
the great rock. the whole OF which is enclosed by
high board fence. In this house are relics
found te, about the place. and photographs, the
bastion and the relics.
The remarkable part Of all this is that tho
land had no previous knowledge OF this business
enterprise that had been we'll started on their
Also, wharf had been built at the end of the
point, and the new road 70 1t ran across their
up here and there giving an historical statement
,6oG about thS fort house had been built over an
sG Gf Of % HnG SSS
been taken in charge and put into shape AZ q |
money making enterprise.
rlous statements. OF which the following are ab-
fort have recently been unearthed by the Pema- |
qud Improvement Association. Trees, grass. |
rock, and no person living to-day knew OF the |
existence Of the foundation wall until we dug IL |
We are working for that object, in connection
with the pemsquid Monument Society tbut the
officers of that society knew nothing Of il. With
the small fund obtained In caLvassing the town
last winter we have laid an underground drain,
built permanent sidewalk over loo feet long,
tower wall. built with the loose stone two tempo
rary towers and thick double walls. TO use up
the stone, and still have them handy for use In
building monument.
Thus with stone and a wooden fence we
for protection, forming a yard for tools and ma
,erais 70 work with; The citizens Of Pemaquid
and now everything is ready To proceed with the
monument except the funds"
Then hen. comes The following "A paper with
cents, card with cuts OF rock and fort house
for ten cents, a certificate. with cuts OF rock,
graphs % Tor ] IS and SO Sr cent. " each photo
T, This statemept 70 the public, Is signed by ~.
But why should he, acling, for Pemaquid I'm
?, Society, go ahead in this way with
a1lbout i.l And who is this j. il. CaFtiand The
nun. i'uius N SeWali, secretary or the MOnu- |
nent Society, learned that he came from Boston,
and Is the head and front OF tho Pemaquid
Improvement Society. in fact, practically consti-
.utes. In himself. tho whole concern.
Mr.. Sewall says that the only reason Cart |
and gives for his extraordinary action is that |
he historic relics were being mutilated by van
ials and necded protection.
Mr Sewall says also that the Monument So |
,lety decidedly objects To this trespass upon its
that they abjure and deplore the use
4 their historic possessions, the most famous in
he state, for securing pecuniary advantage
or individuals, and thai u meeting OF tie
directors will be held soon as possi-
de TO take action upon this remarkable |
,,rof;eeding OF the PepaSuid Improvement
ie has certainly done good work In excava-
ion. and IL visitors are induced TO come he has
lone a. good work for the village, for they will |
want IiI 70 come again and bring their friends, as
oyelier spot on this beautiful Maine coast
But the unwarrantable part OF his action Is |
ut thor knowledge or consent .
The officers OF the Monument Society are not |
he men to hesitate in strengthening this matter
Ut The comparative isolation OF the spot, in a
egion where there Is very little business and
ihere the summer visitors are still scarce, ac-