Memorials of Lydia Whitney Sherman who passed away March eighteen, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; . many years Machias was known as the Lydia Sheiman West Falls Village, by way of distinction fromthe East Falls Village, now East Machias. The falls at Machias—the Indian name of whichwas Kwaps-hitch-wock, signifying the bad placeof the water —from which the village derived thename above mentioned, are situated in the uppercentral portion of the village; and, as the waters rushmadly, and with resistless force over the river-bedboulders, and between the huge and precipitous rocks,
Memorials of Lydia Whitney Sherman who passed away March eighteen, anno Domini, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight; . many years Machias was known as the Lydia Sheiman West Falls Village, by way of distinction fromthe East Falls Village, now East Machias. The falls at Machias—the Indian name of whichwas Kwaps-hitch-wock, signifying the bad placeof the water —from which the village derived thename above mentioned, are situated in the uppercentral portion of the village; and, as the waters rushmadly, and with resistless force over the river-bedboulders, and between the huge and precipitous rocks,that rise on either side of the narrow gorge throughwhich they pass, scattering their silvery spray in alldirections, they present to the eye of natures lovers apicture of rare beauty. Machias was permanently settled in the year1763, only 41 years prior to our mothers birth, by afew hardy, resolute and heroic men, and their fam-ilies, mostly from Scarboro and vicinity, in theWestern portion of the State, who had been drawnthither by the timber and grass with which that rt 3J. a SB » -» -1 T > W 3^ft 3D. region abounded; and, uj)()n llic limilxr indiiHtry, Early Lifechiefly, the town, with its population in thcytar lM}2,of about 2,500, has been developed to its presentflourishing condition. Associated with this pic-turesque town, and its immediate vicinity, are someof the most thrilling events in connection with theopening, particularly, of the Seven Years Strugglefor National Independence, and of the subsequentwar of 1812; indeed, it has been publicly declared bya reliable authority, that Machias has a Revolution-ary history that may be told wath the same pride,as is told the story of how the embattled farmersstood, and repulsed the first attack of the Kingstroops at Lexington and Concord. Among thestirring historical events of which Machias andvicinity was the scene, may be mentioned in this con-nection: the erection of a liberty pole—or morestrictly speaking, a lib
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