The Pine-tree coast . t had but two geographicaldivisions,—Cape Porpoise, the old, original settlement, and the larger village atthe river, which is its later development. The building up of the summercolony has added a third. As the history of the village goes no farther backthan the middle of the last century, it lacks the interest that attaches to theolder settlement at Cape Porpoise, which received its baptism in the blood ofits foremost citizens. In fact, it was not until about 1740 that Paul Shackfordbuilt the first house at whatis now Kennebunkport Vil-lage. The second was builtby Rowla
The Pine-tree coast . t had but two geographicaldivisions,—Cape Porpoise, the old, original settlement, and the larger village atthe river, which is its later development. The building up of the summercolony has added a third. As the history of the village goes no farther backthan the middle of the last century, it lacks the interest that attaches to theolder settlement at Cape Porpoise, which received its baptism in the blood ofits foremost citizens. In fact, it was not until about 1740 that Paul Shackfordbuilt the first house at whatis now Kennebunkport Vil-lage. The second was builtby Rowlandson Bond aboutthree years later; the third,by Gideon Walker, in 1745;and the fourth, by EliphaletPerkins. When the road toGoffs Mill, now correspond-ing with Main Street, waslaid out, in 1755, these werethe only houses in the village, although there were several others in the neigh-borhood, notably that of the late Tristram Perkins, near the lock, and the oneover the river, still remaining in the Mitchell family.^. Mitchells garrison. 90 THE PINE-TREE COAST. Let me explain that over the river is a term of alluring vagueness thathas no reference here to the undiscovered (country from which no travellerreturns. It is more or less indefinitely applied to all the. south-side; region(uiclosed between the Wells road, the river, and the sea. It may reach as faras Bald Head Cliff and Ogunquit, or it may 1)(; limited to a circuit of the nearestbeaches and the roads leading to them. The Congregational meeting-house, Avhich is so jjrominent an object whenour village is approached, was not built until the year 1824. An old citizenonce told me in confidem^e that he had helped to diink the •• sperrits that were
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