The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-08-30
TIE NORTH SHORE.

What is known as the North Shore, North
port, is admittedly the most attractive of
our nearby summer resorts. Nature did it's
best here, providing sandy beach around
which the shore extends in nearly semi
circle, with high wooded banks and a valley
about the centre down where the road runs
from the highway near the home of Oscar
Hills. The pioneer cottage here was the
Pote cottage, and its red roof was long a
conspicuous object in the landscape. 1t
was rightly named Buena Vista (tine view
and is now absorbed in the large and hand
some cottage of Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Dougan
OF New York, which bears the name of the
Anchorage. II. j. Wood, then of Maiden,
now OF Orono, next built and occupied with
his son, Prof Wood, a pretty little cottage,
north of the Pote cottage and which was
named Idlewild. 1t is now the property of
the Dougans. The next cottages built were
a small one by II. f. Mcdonald, and one of
two stories with cupalo by DR.. &. p LON
bard and FREQ A. Garlic. The Mcdonald
cottage was bought later by DR.. j. G. Brooks
and has been greatly enlarged and improv-
ed 1t is named Zeta. DR.. Brooks also bought
later all the land in the rear of his and the
Dougan cottages to the main highway, and
devotes part of it to a tlourshing garden
which produces all kinds of vegetables.
He also has a very thrifty orchard of TWEEN
five young apple trees, in addition to older
trees near the cottage. A row of shade
trees extends along the private way leading
to these cottages, and the grounds about
them are nicely kept and made attractive
by flowers and shubbery. Dr. Lombard has
for many years been the sole owner of
Brentwood, and has a garden and orchard at
the rear which yield abundantly of flowers,
fruit and vegetables, testifying to his skill
and industry as an agriculturalSt. Near BY
is the handsome Burkett cottage, where Mr..
and Mrs. Thomas f. Shea have spent the
vacation season, enjoying the sea breezes
and the company Of their friends. Next is
Hazelbank, built and occupied for many
seasons by the Stricklands of Bangor, but
which has long been in the possession of
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Howes. A few years
ago Mr.. Howes raised the cottage, rebuilt
and added to the veranda, and made other
improvements. W. c. Crawford, now a
teacher in the Boston schools, built a very
pretty little cottage on an eminence beyond,
and it later became the property and was
occupied for several seasons by Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Clark of Belfast. 1t was sold
this season to c. F. Kennedy, who also
bought the Roberts cottage near by, built
last season. The Roberts family of Read
ing, Mass, have done much to develop this
part of the North Shore, having built four
cottages. The first, near the shore, was sold
to Mr.. T. George DodwOrth of New York,
who, with his family and friends, has occu-
pied it for several seasons past. 1t is one
of the finest cottages in this vicinity A lit
tie back from the shore is the neat cottage
site, new cottage, built this season, for
other members of the Roberts family. In
the rear of the Howes cottage is the sum-
mer home of Hon. S. S. Brown of Water
Vile. An unoccupied cottage, owned by a
Boston family, completes the list of build
ings on what is known as the North Shore.
The Dougans have a convenient boat-land-
Ing anu DAHL mouse, anu tnere are otleTS
along the shore, while the pleasure fleet
consists of Mr.. William Kotman's naphtha
launch, the Dodworth sloop Helen, the
Roberts sloop Marjorie, rowboats, canoes,
etc. The greater part of North Shore was
originally the Hills farm, and the farm
house of Mr.. Oscar Hills and its commodi-
GUS stables are an important factor in North
Shore summer life.