The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-17
FRAGMENTS OF NoRrHpoRr HISTORY
NORTH SHORE.

eouluhl VI mug. ~, LOW, gives Oil
accurate history of North Shore:
What is known as the North Shore,
Northport, is admittedly the most
attractive of our nearby summer
resorts. Nature did its best here, pro-
vidlng sandy beach around which the
shore extends in nearly a semi-circle,
with high wooded banks and 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 fine view and is now
absorbed in the large and handsome
cottage of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Dougan
of New York, which bears the name of
the Anchorage. H. 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 aud which was named Idlewild.
1t is now the property of the Dougans.
The next cottages built were small
one by H. E. Mcdonald, and one of two
stories with cupola by DR.. G. P. LON
bard and Fred A. earle. The Nc
Donald cottage was bought later by Dr.
]. G.. Brooks and has been greatly
enlarged and improved. It is named
Zeta. DR.. Brooks also bought later all
the land in the rear Of his and the Dou-
gan cottages to the main highway, and
devotes part of it to a tourishing garden
which produces all kinds of vegetables.
He also has very thrifty orchard of
twenty-five young apple trees, in addi-
ton 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 shrubbery. DR.. Lombard has for
many years been the sole owner of
BilchWood, and has a garden and
orchard at the rear which yield
abundantly of flowers. fruit and vegeta-
bles. testifying to his skill and industry
as an agriculturist. Near by is the
handsome Burkett cottage, where MI
and Mrs. Thomas f. Shea have spent
the vacation season, enjoying the sea
bTeezes 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. \. y. Howes. A few years ago
MI 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 very pretty little cottage on an
eminence beyond and it later became
the property and was occupied for
several seasons by MI. and Mrs. w. A.
Clark of Belfast. 1t was sold this sea-
sou to c. E. 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
hulIt Ioul cottages. Inc UrSt, near Jlle
shore, was sold to MI I. George bod
worth OF New York, who, with his
family and friends, has occupied it for
several seasons past. 1t is one Of the
finest cottages in this vicinity. A little
back from the shore is the neat cottage
and stable of MI John Roberts, and
opposite. a new cottage, built this sea
son. for other members of the Roberts
family. In the rear Of the Howes cot
tage is the summer home of Hon. S. S.
Brown of WaterviIle An unoccupied
cottage, owned by Boston family
completes the list of buildings on what
is known as the North Shore The
Dougans have convenient boat-land-
ing and a bath house, and there are
others along the shore, while the pleas
ure fleet consists of Mr.. William kot-
mans naphtha launch, the Dodworth
sloop Helen, the Roberts sloop Mario
RE, rowboats, canoes, etc The greater
part of North Shore was originally the
Hills farm, and the farm house of MI
Oscar Hills and its commodious stables
are an important factor in North Shore
summer life
Since the above was printed Mr..
Dodworth has built yacht, the Caprice,
and the Roberts brothers have sold the
Marjorie and built the Anita. Both
are fine yachts, about 40 feet, and of
modern model and rig The Caprice
was built by E. l.. Macomber of Bel
fast and the Anita by Roy Coombs of
Vinalhaven. The Marjorie was wreck
ed shortly after she was sold by MI.
Roberts, A handsome rustic bridge
was built in the summer of 1901 across
the ravine which crosses the North
shore.
SOUTH SHORE.
One of the finest cottages in North
port was built by Ira M. Cobe of Chi |
cago in 1895 1t is located at the north
erly extremity of South Shore, near the
Campground, on a bluff IS feet in height |
and presents fine view of the Bay. 1t |
is i'm Ouepn Anne StVle 51Y02 foot with