. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . tracks, and the sand is alive withvisitors, making holiday. The name is derived from a traditionalorchard, the last tree of which disappeared before the Revolution; andthe Old Orchard House, now one of the largest and most fashionableof New England seaside hotels, grew out of a single farmhouse whicha few years ago stood upon its site. In 1875 a fire swept the shore cleanof houses; but the people had become too fond of the place to abandonit, and there
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . tracks, and the sand is alive withvisitors, making holiday. The name is derived from a traditionalorchard, the last tree of which disappeared before the Revolution; andthe Old Orchard House, now one of the largest and most fashionableof New England seaside hotels, grew out of a single farmhouse whicha few years ago stood upon its site. In 1875 a fire swept the shore cleanof houses; but the people had become too fond of the place to abandonit, and there has arisen since an almost continuous village of hotels andcottages between here and the mouth of the Saco at Camp Ellis,grouped about Ocean Park, Ferry beach and other centres, and con-nected by a branch railroad wdiich runs hourly trains back and forththrough all the warmer half of the year. Its admirers think that nobeaches in New England are equal to this ten miles at Old Orchard, and 37 the almost equalh ^ stretch in front of Scarborough a little way totlie eastward. In a fine grove just back of the station, an immense re- LL.
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