Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-12-21
land of deep SHOWS it is extremely
hard travelling.

Major Godfrey, chief of the corps
of engineers of the war department
at Boston, was in Biddcford Wednes-
Gay morning and was taken on trip
down the Saco river in the tug A. G.
Prentiss to look over conditions along
the river. Upon his observations he
will base his report to the depart
ment in connection with the plans to
dredge the river so as to allow vessels
of greater draft to come up to the
local wharves. This is the mater on
which a committee of local citizens
went to Washington early in the year
and it is said that prospects are good
for the completion of the project in
another year. Local business men
hope that the work can be started
early in the spring so as to have it
completed as carly as possible.
Malcolm Williams, actor, whose
fondness for fresh water bathing cost
him his beautiful summer home at
Sebago lake q season ago, will not
cease to be Il summer resident of
Maine even though the Indian Island
property he inhabited for 16 years is
no longer his. Mr.. Williams has pur-
chased through the Maine Lakes and
Coast Company of Portland, fine
estate at Great Pond, belgrade lakes,
which was formerly owned by p. w.
Pitt of Washington, and there he and
his wife, the beautiful Florence Reed,
famed as stage and screen star Will
pass their summers in hyllic ease.
The Indian island estate which has
been their summer home for so many
lNae Job Inv I1n
Portland water district by right of
eminent domain, and the remainder
OF the theatrical colony on the island,
Mr.. and Mrs. Billy" Roselle and Mr..
and Mrs. Lester Lonergan, have like
wise been dispossessed.
When the British feet weighed
anchor in the harbor of Castine, the
last place on the Atlantic coast to be
evacuated as the war Of 1872 came to
close, the foundation was laid for a
brick building which today stands in
excellent condition overlooking the
docks. From that day the building
has been occupied by various BUSH
ness men and is at present fully ten
anted. For the student of history,
there is no more interesting spot in
New lildIl Oli SdSltue. Wv GI
which four nationalities fought, the
French. Dutch, English and Ameri-
cans. In the town are scores of
markers which tell the visitor that
this is sacred ground, for the famous
old forts, the chapels of the early
Catholics. the quaint old houses
wherein the redcoats were quartered,
have been preserved and offer to the
student of history much food for
thought One interesting relic is an
old well built prior to 1910, for it is
spoken of in the surrender of the
English in that year as being in q
cellar under the magazine of the old
fort. At that time Castine was a
part of Acadia, and the well, lined
with Flemish stones, is very like that
III the old burying ground at Grand
Pre-. Castine claims the distinction
of being the oldest permanent settle
ment on the Atlantic coast between
Port Royal, N. s., and st. Augustin,
Fla, having been settled in 1914 by
the French under La Tour. 1t was
originally called PentaSoet, and was
later a part of Penopscot. but was
afterwards set apart from that town
and named Castine in honor of the
French nobleman. Baron de st. Cas-
tin, who took the town from the
Dutch in 1876.