Summer days down East . in the State House at Augusta, and bearsan inscription as follows : THIS Corner-Stoxe LAID BY DIRECTIONOF Governor Shirley, 1754. The commander of the troops whobuilt the fort was Gen. John Winslow, a veteran of the fatal Havanaexpedition, and the next year the chief leader in the expulsion of theAcadians from their native land. There were no settlers within manymiles of the post, and the soldiers of the garrison had little to do buthunt game in the vast pine forests adjacent, or fish about the falls. TheIndians gave the place a wide berth, and their allies, the French
Summer days down East . in the State House at Augusta, and bearsan inscription as follows : THIS Corner-Stoxe LAID BY DIRECTIONOF Governor Shirley, 1754. The commander of the troops whobuilt the fort was Gen. John Winslow, a veteran of the fatal Havanaexpedition, and the next year the chief leader in the expulsion of theAcadians from their native land. There were no settlers within manymiles of the post, and the soldiers of the garrison had little to do buthunt game in the vast pine forests adjacent, or fish about the falls. TheIndians gave the place a wide berth, and their allies, the French officersand Canadian gentlemen, who had in earlier years reduced many a firmNew-England stronghold, never looked upon the Sebasticook it was considered an important point, fencing out the barbarians aseflectually as Aurelians wall did the Ficts and Scots; and the Provincekept a garrison of 130 men here, under the gallant Captain the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris, in 1763, the garrison was. > Waterville. 39 withdrawn down the river, and the defences were left to fall intodilapidation. From the block-house the long line of mills and houses whichforms the front of Waterville comes into view, and the train soonsweeps across the Kennebec on a high bridge, beneath which roar andthunder the picturesque Ticonic Falls, among whose wave-swept rocksand ledges hundreds of logs from up-stream are entangled and beatento pieces. WATERVILLE. The city of Waterville is one of the prettiest in Maine, and covers abroad alluvial plateau above the Kennebec, its long streets overarchedwith rows of venerable elms, making deep shadowy vistas like cathedralaisles. On every side extend the comfortable homes of a peaceful andindustrious population, between which the streets run out to the edge ofthe country, and lose themselves among the lanes and highways these tranquil avenues, and far removed from the busy districtof stores and mills, stands the new Elmwoo
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