New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . SEEING THE SIGHTS. 125 If we drop in here for a call on the register. Hon. George , he will give us some figures indicating a boom in realestate hereabouts. The registry includes New Bedford and the townsof Acushnet, Fairhaven, Dartmouth, and Westport. The first deedhere was recorded July i, 1837. The number of instruments recordedin the office have been as follows: 1838, 648; 1870, 1123; 1875,1265 ; 1880, 1482, and in 1887, 2396. At the southeast corner of County and William streets stands ahouse now
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . SEEING THE SIGHTS. 125 If we drop in here for a call on the register. Hon. George , he will give us some figures indicating a boom in realestate hereabouts. The registry includes New Bedford and the townsof Acushnet, Fairhaven, Dartmouth, and Westport. The first deedhere was recorded July i, 1837. The number of instruments recordedin the office have been as follows: 1838, 648; 1870, 1123; 1875,1265 ; 1880, 1482, and in 1887, 2396. At the southeast corner of County and William streets stands ahouse now occupied by George F. Bartlett, which was the residenceof Sylvia Ann Rowland. It was built for Thomas Rotch, a son of. SUMMER HOME OF GEN. PHILIP1H. SHERIDAN AT NONQUITT. William Rotch, Jr., and after his death his sister, who married CharlesFleming, occupied it. The} are said to have given the first dancing-party ever held in a private house in New Bedford. This was aboutfift} years ago. And if we turn through Arnold or Orchard or Cottage streets,and drive out on Hawthorn, you cannot help agreeing with me thatthis part of our city constitutes a perfect park. The residences aremany of them of the popular Qiieen Anne order of architecture andthe surroundings are most picturesque. And now we will take the Point Road drive, which is sofamous I think you must have heard of it. Clarks point, you know, 126 NEW BEDFORD. is a strip of land projecting into the waters of the bay. Around thispoint. Mayor Rodney French built a driveway eighty feet in width,in 1853, at a very large expense and it has since been kept in thebest of repair, $20,000 having been expended upon it by the city gov-ernment within five year
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