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; . The Marine Railway. great storm of 1815 carried a brig into and partially down thecreek where it grounded, and in doing so drove its jibboom intothe side of the Great House. The scar is there to-day, underthe sheathing. The western arm of the Lagoon was in those days an innerharbor. This is now so shallow that only an occasional row-boat or Ben Luces flock of ducks navigate it, but within thememory of Philander West, w
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; . The Marine Railway. great storm of 1815 carried a brig into and partially down thecreek where it grounded, and in doing so drove its jibboom intothe side of the Great House. The scar is there to-day, underthe sheathing. The western arm of the Lagoon was in those days an innerharbor. This is now so shallow that only an occasional row-boat or Ben Luces flock of ducks navigate it, but within thememory of Philander West, who died within a very few years, 84 MARTHAS The village l)lacksmitli. tify that nothing ofthis sort has occur-red so recently asthat year, and it isprobable that thesketch is of earlierdate. OLD HARBOR LIGHTS. The commandingposition now occu-pied by the MarineHospital was withinthe writers memo- a brig has anchored thereoff the Marine larger of the two gras-sy islands is Ferryboat Is-land, because Isaac Chase,who established the ferrybetween Holmes Hole andFalmouth, was in the habitof bringing his boat insideand anchoring under its pamphlet published in1879 contains a woodcut otVineyard Haven withsloops and a schooner an-chored inside of the BeachRoad. The writer can tes-
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