What to see in America . Maine 9 and saluted them with a broadside of guns. The settle-ment was destroyed, and the Frenchmen were taken first white man to establish a permanent home on theisland was Abraham Somes of Gloucester. He came thitherin his fishing boat in 1761, and cut a load of barrel staves. Old Orchard Beach which he carried back. The next year he voyaged to theisland with his wife and children, and built a log house atthe head of the sound that bears his name. About 1860 theisland began to win the favor of wandering artists and partiesof college students on a vacation, a
What to see in America . Maine 9 and saluted them with a broadside of guns. The settle-ment was destroyed, and the Frenchmen were taken first white man to establish a permanent home on theisland was Abraham Somes of Gloucester. He came thitherin his fishing boat in 1761, and cut a load of barrel staves. Old Orchard Beach which he carried back. The next year he voyaged to theisland with his wife and children, and built a log house atthe head of the sound that bears his name. About 1860 theisland began to win the favor of wandering artists and partiesof college students on a vacation, and within twenty yearsBar Harbor developed from a primitive village of farmersand fishermen into one of the most popular resorts on theNew England coast. Portland, which is by far the largest place in the state,was completely destroyed by the Indians in 1676 and againin 1690. On the latter occasion no one was left to burythe dead. More than two years afterward a ship that wasvoyaging along the coast stopped there, and the crew gatheredthe bleached bones and buried them. Early in the Revolu-tionary War four British vessels entered the harbor and 10 What to See in America
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