The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . are current. Duringthe earlier camp meeting days, particularly before the entranceto the Lagoon was bridged, the usual route for those attendingworship from Holmes Hole was across the waters of the La-goon and across the fields on foot past the corner of UnclePeters house. In those days the place was far from being thelonely spot that it now is. TO DO AWAY WITH THE BEACH present opening into the Lagoon was put
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . are current. Duringthe earlier camp meeting days, particularly before the entranceto the Lagoon was bridged, the usual route for those attendingworship from Holmes Hole was across the waters of the La-goon and across the fields on foot past the corner of UnclePeters house. In those days the place was far from being thelonely spot that it now is. TO DO AWAY WITH THE BEACH present opening into the Lagoon was put through in1815 by a great storm, and it was not until 1872 that the bridgewas built and the Beach Road opened; up to that time travelfor Vineyard Haven went by the head of the Lagoon. Of lateyears there has been some agitation looking toward the doingaway with this bridge and throwing the Lagoon open as a har-bor of refuge from the northeast storms. It is believed that bycutting out a considerable strip of the beach and thus makingwide the openmg, the action of the currents, whose swift watersnow bring vast quantities of sand into the Lagoon, would 80 MARTHAS Good lioWing grouniL cease. With a seawall at East Chop andspur jetties along theEastville shore to stopthe further wash intothe harbor (and thismust be done sooneror later anyway), andwith some little initialdredging, the workcould be accomplishedwithout a too greatexpense, and once done, should take care of itself. This wouldbe a great boon, particularly to small boats and yachts, andwould unquestionably induce many more of the latter to usethe harbor, of v/hich yachtsmen are inclined to fight shy, owingto the exposed anchorage under certain weather conditionswhich are difficult toforetell. Already ashort breakwater hasbeen built as a shelterfor small boats, butthis is wholly inade-quate to the needs ofthe place, those first onthe ground have,rightly enough, appro-priated all the ; thus theSummer
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