Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . ed to the Farrar mansion, built by CalvinFarrar in 1805, where Mrs. Brown was born. Theoriginal Brown homestead was burned in 1870. The Farrar mansion is an excellent example of earlynineteenth-century New England architecture, beau-tifully situated on the main street. Before it the steepcliff of Mt. Tirem rises abruptly, and behind spreadthe shining waters of Tom Pond, named for ThomasChamberlain, the Leather-stocking of the east, whokilled Chief Paugus in Lovewells famous fight. Theroad by which it lies was once the Scoggi
Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) : a biography and bibliography . ed to the Farrar mansion, built by CalvinFarrar in 1805, where Mrs. Brown was born. Theoriginal Brown homestead was burned in 1870. The Farrar mansion is an excellent example of earlynineteenth-century New England architecture, beau-tifully situated on the main street. Before it the steepcliff of Mt. Tirem rises abruptly, and behind spreadthe shining waters of Tom Pond, named for ThomasChamberlain, the Leather-stocking of the east, whokilled Chief Paugus in Lovewells famous fight. Theroad by which it lies was once the Scoggin or Pequawkettrail, over which the red warriors made their way be-tween the Saco intervales and the St. Lawrence, avoid-ing the shorter route through Crawfords Notch, to thewestward, for fear of demons lodged in its rocky mountain gained its name from the gruntingSokokis. Tirem Injun was the phrase that stuckto it and became its geographical designation. The town is bountifully watered by many ponds andstreams. The Waterford Kezars at the base of the [4]. BEGINNINGS Bear Mountain range link up with Long Lake at Har-rison, which affords a water route to Sebago through thesinuous Songo, and in the thirties and forties—and,indeed, until the building of the Portland & Ogdens-burg Railroad in 1870—connected by canal fromSebago to the sea. Stages on the route via Albany, Bethel, and Gorhambetween Portland, Quebec, and Montreal rattled dailythrough the single street, loaded with travelers. It wasa pleasant place for a lad, even though not more thantwo hundred people lived in or near it. Waterfordincluded about fifty square miles of territory, mainlylake and hill, with here and there fertile slopes onwhich good crops were grown. Timber was the chiefasset and numbers of sawmills were in constant opera-tion, cutting up the primeval growths. There werefour centers of life in its limits, North, South, EastWaterford, and the Flat, as Waterford proper isknown. The town house w
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