The Pine-tree coast . things exhibits on the spot,perhaps the oddest is the readjustment it has called for in the seafaring popu-lation itself. To see men who have navigated big ships the world over, nowturning their hands to anything they can pick up an honest living at, sets oneseriously questioning whether, after all, there is such a thing as a law of naturaldrift, where every man finds his true level at last. Even the village grave-digger has thus been stranded by the hard logic of events. Kennebunkport is now a well-established watering-place. Catering for the AT KENNEBUNKPORT. 89 BUmmei
The Pine-tree coast . things exhibits on the spot,perhaps the oddest is the readjustment it has called for in the seafaring popu-lation itself. To see men who have navigated big ships the world over, nowturning their hands to anything they can pick up an honest living at, sets oneseriously questioning whether, after all, there is such a thing as a law of naturaldrift, where every man finds his true level at last. Even the village grave-digger has thus been stranded by the hard logic of events. Kennebunkport is now a well-established watering-place. Catering for the AT KENNEBUNKPORT. 89 BUmmei visitors wants tonus its unique occupation, A word or two will explain how this has I ?* - * -11 brought about. In 1872 a few •? solid men of Boston, who were Looking over the coast witha view of locating a new summer resort, attracted by the unusual advan-tages offered by the unoccupied shore-fronl here lor their purpose. It wasbouded or bought up, and operations begun by building a hotel, which was first. TIIK PERKINS HOI SE. opened to the public in the summer of 1873, under the management of thatveteran landlord, Job Jenness, and by the now widely known name of theOcean Bluff. Before this result came about, Kennebunkport 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 Mi-lage. The second was builtby liowlandson Bond aboutthree years later; the Gideon Walker, in ;:and the fourth, by EliphaletPerkins. When the road toGoffs Mill, now correspond-ing with .Main St
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