The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . he head of the harbor in a gentle curve. So great an authority as Richard Watson Gilder writes asfollows on much the same subject:— One of these days the people of a commercial appreciate the fact that, to put it commercially, beauty is avaluable asset, as well as a joy forever; and then the adver-tisement fiend will not be allowed to go up and down the landdestroying views, which means destroying values
The story of Martha's Vineyard, from the lips of its inhabitants, newspaper files and those who have visited its shores, including stray notes on local history and industries; . he head of the harbor in a gentle curve. So great an authority as Richard Watson Gilder writes asfollows on much the same subject:— One of these days the people of a commercial appreciate the fact that, to put it commercially, beauty is avaluable asset, as well as a joy forever; and then the adver-tisement fiend will not be allowed to go up and down the landdestroying views, which means destroying values—values thatbelong to the entire population, and that no individual has aright to ruin. OAK BLUFFS TO VINEYARD HAVEN. 83 BASS CREEK AND THE INNER former entrance to the Lagoon was Bass Creek, whichat one time cut across the beach just west of the present marinerailway. The creek, however, steadily cut away the sand onthe west and filled in on the east, thus sidling along the beachto a point just beyond where the village wharf now puts forth,and Bass Creek then followed the course now taken by WaterStreet; in 1807 the creek carried 6 or 7 feet of water. The. The Marine Railway. great storm of 1815 carried a brig into and partially down thecreek where it grounded, and in doing so drove its jibboom intothe side of the Great House. The scar is there to-day, underthe sheathing. The western arm of the Lagoon was in those days an innerharbor. This is now so shallow that only an occasional row-boat or Ben Luces flock of ducks navigate it, but within thememory of Philander West, who died within a very few years, 84 MARTHAS VINEYARD.
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