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; . From West Tisbury. 172 MARTHAS VINEYARD. discover them. I n1737 the Rev. wrote thatin consequence of along continued rainthe Vineyard riversoverflowed theirbanks and the near-by mowing groundswere very muchdamnified. Short-ly after the lastcrossing the wayclimbs a gentle hilland from its toplooks down on atypical New Eng-land village land-scape; West Tis- bury village lies before us. In 1867 it was written tha
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; . From West Tisbury. 172 MARTHAS VINEYARD. discover them. I n1737 the Rev. wrote thatin consequence of along continued rainthe Vineyard riversoverflowed theirbanks and the near-by mowing groundswere very muchdamnified. Short-ly after the lastcrossing the wayclimbs a gentle hilland from its toplooks down on atypical New Eng-land village land-scape; West Tis- bury village lies before us. In 1867 it was written that theWest Tisbury end of the Middle Road was so crooked that itwould puzzle the great Path Finder himself to get into it. EARLY ROADS ON THE first public road to the westward from Edgartown, andthe only one for a hundred years, was that now called the SouthRoad; it was probably the trail of the Indian in earlier was the only open road; on others the equestrian is saidto have opened gates and let down bars at the rate of aboutfive in every three minutes. It must have been some such waythat our friend Mr. S. A. Devens traveled in 1838, for he notes. Here lyes ijiirieU tlio body f Doct. TIios. Sept. ye (>tli, 1706, iu the COtli year of liis age. WEST TISBURY. 173
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