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; . es not know, a party of British landed in an openboat and legend tells how one true heart, after attempting un-successfully to arouse the neighbors and secure a party to re-sist the invasion, found himself finally with only two others VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. 153 to oppose the landing force, but, equal to the emergency, heappeared from behind a beach hummock, and in a loud voicecalled: Halt! Two of you step out
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; . es not know, a party of British landed in an openboat and legend tells how one true heart, after attempting un-successfully to arouse the neighbors and secure a party to re-sist the invasion, found himself finally with only two others VINEYARD HAVEN TO PROSPECT HILL. 153 to oppose the landing force, but, equal to the emergency, heappeared from behind a beach hummock, and in a loud voicecalled: Halt! Two of you step out here and bind these the enemy quietly submitted to capture, supposing a con-siderable body of troops to be held in readiness behind thehillock. THE ATHEARN FARM. We will now regain the State Road and journeying onthrough Middletown, or North Tisbury, which does not fur-nish forth much in the way of story so far as I have been ableto learn, proceed down the North Road, but before doing sowill sidestep for a moment to the Athearn farm, crossing thebridge of our picture. This farm lies in the corner formed bythe State Road and Mill Brook, west of the road and south. The State Road Mill Brook. of the brook. Formerly it was the Hezekiah Luce place, whoseowner moved about 1784 to Conway, Mass., and became the 154 MARTHAS VINEYARD. ancestor of Admiral Stephen Luce, now of Newport, R. I. Thefarm is also celebrated as the birthplace of Prince Athearn,who was second in command of the construction of the frigateConstitution—Old Ironsides—Col. George L. Claghorn,also a Vineyard man, being his chief. THE N. S. SHALER returning tothe North Road wesoon come to SevenGates, the estate ofProf. N. S. Shaler, aman who will longbe remembered forhis geniality andability; his interestin the Vineyard wasunlimited and theisland is greatly in-debted to him. Longago the Professorrecognized the beauties of the North Shore, and after explor-ing Its length settled on this sp
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