The Pine-tree coast . and sweet-peas bloom besidethe houses, — there is ashady and sequestered is about the most pictur-esque bit of Old York Icould discover remaining. The neighborhood to whichI allude might Avith truth becalled the last stronghold ofOld York. But it is evidentthat when the outworks havefallen the citadel cannot longhold out. Of course there is a group of old houses here, huddled together as iffor mutual protection. One of them is the Barrell homestead, said to have beenbuilt by Jonathan Sayward, in 1713, who, as captain of a transport, broughthome some of the spoil o
The Pine-tree coast . and sweet-peas bloom besidethe houses, — there is ashady and sequestered is about the most pictur-esque bit of Old York Icould discover remaining. The neighborhood to whichI allude might Avith truth becalled the last stronghold ofOld York. But it is evidentthat when the outworks havefallen the citadel cannot longhold out. Of course there is a group of old houses here, huddled together as iffor mutual protection. One of them is the Barrell homestead, said to have beenbuilt by Jonathan Sayward, in 1713, who, as captain of a transport, broughthome some of the spoil of Louisburg in the shape of rare old china and oldbrasses. The others are typical New England farmhouses, belonging to an ()i:iv
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