. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . burbchanges into village, is not apparent in the southerly approachalong the military road. But as we advanced on our way the farmhouses became larger, and verandas and lawns becam-e a frequentfeature; then the buildings and grounds of the MadawaskaTraining School on the right, with handsome, half-foreignlooking girls picturesquely grouped like wild flower clusters,upon its steps and verandas ; and the board sidewalk that bor-dered the roadside were notification that we were in the tow
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . burbchanges into village, is not apparent in the southerly approachalong the military road. But as we advanced on our way the farmhouses became larger, and verandas and lawns becam-e a frequentfeature; then the buildings and grounds of the MadawaskaTraining School on the right, with handsome, half-foreignlooking girls picturesquely grouped like wild flower clusters,upon its steps and verandas ; and the board sidewalk that bor-dered the roadside were notification that we were in the appeared stores and ofl^ices fronting us from the roadthat leads up the St. John valley, and, in a green, open fieldbetween the road and the river, stood the famous blockhousethe tutelary shrine in peace and the bulwark in war of the his-toric town of Fort Kent. It is a region fraught with martialreminders, this peaceful nook of Acadia at which we havearrived. We come to it over a military highway, a fortificationconfronts us at the end and the Hotel Dickey, at which weput up, was once a CHAPTER V. FORT KENT. ITS BLOCKHOUSE AND TRAINING AROOSTOOK WAR. }?^^yA\,:H- Acadian remembered, Fort Kent was settled by•C 7/\ V^ .^^..vwcw. refugees and others. It was named from^JS/Mi^Xx^^ the fort erected in 1841, which was named for Gov- ernor Kent ; was incorporated February 23, 1869,and embraces all of Township 18, Range 7, andmost of Township 18, Range 6, and its population, by the cen-sus of 1900, was 2,528. It contains large general stores andstores for the selling of hardware and farming tools ; is the siteof the lumber, grist and carding mills of the Fort Kent MillCompany, and of two other grist mills and a tannery ; has foursmiths besides carriage and harness and paint manufacturers ;contains two hotels, the Eagle, since named the Dickey, andthe Morneault, and the Madawaska Training School. As seen by the visitor the town is built in the form of an E,
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