Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-06-09
REGULARS HEAR
THE ANNUAL CALL
TO OCEAN POINT
No Place on Maine Coast Dear
er to Its Friends, Who Have
Numbered Thousands in It's
40 Years of Summer C0lonists
Life. Regulars and Guests
Already Arriving.

Ocean Point, Me-, June S-(SpeciaD
Almost half century has rolled by.
or more correctly speaking, back in
1876 the Centennial year, a little hand
full of Augusta colonists needed the
call of the wild and with DR.. L. ].
Crooker for a guide, came down the
big and the crooked river looking for
an ideal spot to locate a summer
home. They landed on what was then
Buckland's Neck, or Linnekin's Point,
the present Ocean FONT, to them the
most beautiful spot on earth. After a
unanimous decision that this was the
land of promise, they cast off the yoke
of conventionalities and whist and
founded a little municipality or sum-
n1er colony all their own. Most of the
early settlers who took the initiative
and blazed the trail have passed be-
You'd, but their memory still lives, for
they builded better than they knew
for it was the nucleus of what is today
one of the most attractive summer re-
sorts on the Maine coast. Its location
is ideal.
Ocean Point lays like the index
finger, extending way out into the
ocean, a narrow wooded peninsula, sur
rounded on three sides by the waters
of the Atlantic, with a BACKGROUND of
stately pines and fir that sway and
whisper in the breeze. Nature has
beautifully endowed the Point, l think
she has been more than partial and as
sit on this wind-swept veranda to-
day and gaze out upon this long
stretch Of open water, broken here and
there by little wooded islands, with the
horizon for the limit of my vision, /
am more than reminded Of the natural
advantages of our coast. The shore
is rock-ribbed and iron bound, at
times the waters that wash the shore
are as calm and still as a mill pond.
hardly ripple on the oceans wrinkled
face, at others, when the mood
changes, and the waters come in with
ia wild angry rush from the storm out
side, sending the breakers and spray
far inland at the same time playing a
dismal chant mat is weird and
creepy.
Back from the water front, the high
wooded lands come down almost to the
waters edge and meet the rocky shore.
Here and there, zigzagging through
this primeval fores., and extending in
land paralelling the coast line, are the
little wooded paths just as nature left
them in tho long ago. just trails, only
wide enough for persons to travel
single file. as the Indians did long be-
fore the white men came, for this
was the Indians country. the Wane-
nocks tribe, their hunting ground and
meeting place, while journeying along
the coast, and the old Indian traditions
cling to this spot like q burr.
Boothbay can lay claim to historic
mention, for history was made here in
the early part Of the 18th century
(September, 1919 for it was or these
shores that the famous sea battle Of
His Majesty's. brigade Boxer and the
United States brigade Enterprise took
place. In view Of the recent North
Sea naval battle where thousands Of
lives were lost and millions upon mill
lions Of property were destroyed the
Enterprise and Boxer battle reads like
a moving picture story, but then we
must remember that that was over a
century ago and the world moves.
The Point changes but little from
year to year. Our little community,
made of some Of tho best citizens,
sturdy friends and kindly neighbors
live in anticipation for seven months
out of the year-the other five they
live in reality down by the sea.
The advance guard which always
comes with the dandelions is here but
the season has hardly opened as yet.
Every indication points to a very busy
season. every cottage with possibly
some rare exception. will be open py
the last of the month. The hotels win
open July !. with the exception Of the
Bay View, which will open to private
party Of High school scholars on June