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; . kchurch with its surrounding settlement of houses, but we aregoing the other way. WEST TISBURY. 171 WEST TISBURY. THE MYSTERY OF THE BUTLER Middle Road follows a central valley between theridges to Chilmark village and it has the reputation of beingsomewhat rough, but the stretch from Tea Lane to West Tis-bury village is entirely satisfactory as I recall it. The secondhouse passed on the right and now known a
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; . kchurch with its surrounding settlement of houses, but we aregoing the other way. WEST TISBURY. 171 WEST TISBURY. THE MYSTERY OF THE BUTLER Middle Road follows a central valley between theridges to Chilmark village and it has the reputation of beingsomewhat rough, but the stretch from Tea Lane to West Tis-bury village is entirely satisfactory as I recall it. The secondhouse passed on the right and now known as the Billy Mitchell place was formerly theButler farm, supposed to havebeen purchased and the houseerected with a find of buried treas-ure. Mr. Butler was a poor man,very poor, with no rich relativesto inherit from, but one fine dayhe blossomed as the rose, and as hekept his own counsel and hisneighbors could only guess, it wasconcluded that he had stumbled onthe hidden hoard of some pirate. TYASQUAM RIVER IS CROSSED AND THE WATERS RISE. The road crosses the Tyasquam River three times, according to the map, but for the first two crossings one must look sharp if he would. t^jijir. From West Tisbury. 172 MARTHAS VINEYARD. discover them. I n1737 the Rev. wrote thatin consequence of along continued rainthe Vineyard riversoverflowed theirbanks and the near-by mowing groundswere very muchdamnified. Short-ly after the lastcrossing the wayclimbs a gentle hilland from its toplooks down on atypical New Eng-land village land-scape; West Tis- bury village lies before us. In 1867 it was written that theWest Tisbury end of the Middle Road was so crooked that itwould puzzle the great Path Finder himself to get into it. EARLY ROADS ON THE first public road to the westward from Edgartown, andthe only one for a hundred years, was that now called the SouthRoad; it was probably the trail of the Indian in earlier was the only open road; on others the equestrian is
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