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; . there was but one windmillin Tisbury, but makes no mention of its exact location. Theone given in the illustration was built about 1812-15, and for-merly stood on the high ground of Manter Hill, then known asMill Hill. The null now forms part of the dwelling of aSummer resident, and may be glimpsed as one passes a laneon the highest level leading toward the water. When this pic-ture was taken in 1884 the mill was a pro
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; . there was but one windmillin Tisbury, but makes no mention of its exact location. Theone given in the illustration was built about 1812-15, and for-merly stood on the high ground of Manter Hill, then known asMill Hill. The null now forms part of the dwelling of aSummer resident, and may be glimpsed as one passes a laneon the highest level leading toward the water. When this pic-ture was taken in 1884 the mill was a prominent feature of thelandscape, as will be noted by a careful inspection of the pictureWreckage from the City of Columbus. The mill was erected by Mr. Lothrop Merry. TO WEST CHOP. Main Street, if dili-gently followed, willultimately bring oneto West Chop. Theroad keeps well infrom the shore, butthere are many beau-tiful glimpses of theharbor in spite of thefact that the edge ofthe bluff is pretty welllived upon, mostly byoff-islanders whosummer in these parts; and where water is not to be seen thereare clumps of shady woods to rest the eye and make beautifulthe lliizzletous Head lias the nerve to call this beautifullane an Avenue. 124 MARTHAS VINEYARD. A MISTAKE. This is down the Neck, which reminds me of Sarah Bark,who once kept a private hospital for sick mariners ladys chief factotum was one Becky, and her chief re-sponsibility her son Ben, who was best known for his won-derful ability to sleep, a natural gift highly cultivated, fromwhich no ordinary methods of procedure would arouse him. Sarah once had a sailor patient who was expected to passaway at any moment, and undertaker Johnson took a livelypersonal interest in the result, so much so that he was a fre-quent caller, and at last was told by Becky that the sailor wasready for his hands, but being somewhat deaf, mistook thenumber of the room and entered that wherein Ben lay soundasleep. Proceedin
Size: 1787px × 1398px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectmarthas, bookyear1908
