New Castle, historic and picturesque . , and a third to warm j^our night-gown alone survives of all the dwellings of the period, in the southpart of New Castle. But history repeats itself in little as inlarge; and again the modern world has found its way into NewCastle on that side, over the new free bridge of Little Harbor,drawn by the fine situation of the Wentworth Hotel, and theadvantages for private summer residences along the shore. The free bridge over Little Harbor was built in 1875, by thetowns of New^ Castle and Rye, aided l)y an appropriation of .iSHOOfrom the County of Kockin
New Castle, historic and picturesque . , and a third to warm j^our night-gown alone survives of all the dwellings of the period, in the southpart of New Castle. But history repeats itself in little as inlarge; and again the modern world has found its way into NewCastle on that side, over the new free bridge of Little Harbor,drawn by the fine situation of the Wentworth Hotel, and theadvantages for private summer residences along the shore. The free bridge over Little Harbor was built in 1875, by thetowns of New^ Castle and Rye, aided l)y an appropriation of .iSHOOfrom the County of Kockingham. Its length is 730 feet, and itstotal cost something over $7,000. It is the successor of one builtby a stock company in the beginning of , and which,. illM i, ill l^ -V^ ? ? HISTOBIC AND PICTURESQUE 33 on account of want of travel and bad management, was suf-fered to go to decay; and at length its owners took away, eachone, such a portion as they thought themselves entitled to. Acurious fate for a bridge. I have heard that the toll-collectorsold rum to eke out his living, and that, at the last, he was obligedto take huckleberries in summer and clams in winter in paymentof toll. Besides, every one was allowed to pass free on Sunday,as passengers were presumed to be going to meeting. When thenew bridge was built hardly a trace of the former one could beseen; but the new is exactly on the line of the old. The oldname of the place where the bridge lands in Rye was SaundersPoint. In the beginning of the seventeenth century there was aferry at the same point, supported at the charge of New Castle;and a little later there was probably a rude bridge across the nar-rowest part of Little Harbor, from Blunts Island to the beach,near the ho
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