An architectural monograph on some old houses on the southern coast of Maine . ERIES The first century after the Revolutionary Warwas one of active shipping interest in New Eng-land. The East India trade created a long andfamous list of clipper ships, which gave prosper-ity not only to Salem, Newburyport and Ports-mouth, but to Portland and Bath and otherMaine coast towns. The whaling fleets of Marthas Vineyard,Nantucket and New Bedford were aided by theMaine shipyards, and both commerce and ship-building industry brought prosperity. In the years between the end of the Revolu- manded them and
An architectural monograph on some old houses on the southern coast of Maine . ERIES The first century after the Revolutionary Warwas one of active shipping interest in New Eng-land. The East India trade created a long andfamous list of clipper ships, which gave prosper-ity not only to Salem, Newburyport and Ports-mouth, but to Portland and Bath and otherMaine coast towns. The whaling fleets of Marthas Vineyard,Nantucket and New Bedford were aided by theMaine shipyards, and both commerce and ship-building industry brought prosperity. In the years between the end of the Revolu- manded them and sailed from and came home totheir own doors. There are no more numerous or better land-locked harbors for fitting out, while safelyprotected from all interference, than on the coastof Maine. The Dalmatian coast of the .\driaticand the gulfs of the Grecian peninsula alonecompare with it. The famous Bonne HommeRichard of John Paul Jones was fitted outin the Great Bay up the Piscataqua River, andmany a cargo has been laden from some con-cealed nook between York and THE HOBBS HOUSE, SOUTH BERWICK, very simple house of unusually good proportions. tionary War and the War of 1812 there is in-creasing evidence of comfortable fortunes havingbeen amassed by local merchants all along theAtlantic coast, for larger and more importantprivate houses are being built everywhere, notonly in the towns themselves, but often at quitea distance from them. Especially is this the casein the first decade of the nineteenth century. Sheltered from the sea by outlying islands, asat North Haven, or nestled in behind promon-tories or headlands, with still waters at the footof grassy slopes, are to be found the homes ofthese amphibiously minded merchants of Maine,men who sent out their own ships and often com- Our Yankee skipper has been standing incloser to land, and suddenly he runs out of thefog into clear sunshine. As he emerges the longwhite mass of mist stretches right and left lik
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