Author : Charles Dana Loomis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666596840
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)
Book Synopsis White Pine, Vol. 8: Series of Architectural Monographs; Port Towns of Penobscot Bay (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Dana Loomis
Download or read book White Pine, Vol. 8: Series of Architectural Monographs; Port Towns of Penobscot Bay (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Dana Loomis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from White Pine, Vol. 8: Series of Architectural Monographs; Port Towns of Penobscot Bay The town had already been named after Lord Camden, Waldo's "friend at court" during the action for the grant. The place was a hamlet when the Revolution came, and the settlers must have been terribly isolated. Small British privateers, known as "Shaving Mills," swept the coast and raided Camden, sometimes with success but often the honors did not go to the king's men. At this time Belfast also had been settled, not like Camden, by individuals sent out by a company, but by a group of people whose fathers fifty years before, in 1718, had fled from North Ireland to Boston, settled Londonderry, N. H., and started the Irish potato in New England with poetic justice to become one of Maine's chief industries. A man, by name John Mitchell, came to the Belfast district, saw, and returned, to bring thirty-five of his friends, who promptly bought the site and petitioned for their ancestral name to be given it. Castine, which now bears the name of a Count de Castine, a family since wiped out in France by the Revolution, was for a long time known as Bagaduce. The gentleman whose name it now bears was evidently an adventurous and enterprising soldier of fortune. He was a power with his Indian allies, and is said to have married among them. As governor or commandant of what must have been a mere trading-post and fort, he at least left his name for the place, which was later abandoned by the French, and finally resettled by the English in 1761. The French name does not appear to have been used until after the Revolution. The fate of the Bagaduce expedition by the Americans against this British fort may have led the townspeople to seek a name of better omen when their liberty had been won. All this is to paint our picture of coast villages, kept from growing to towns first by the unpleasant relations of French and English and then by our own war for independence. So it was that most of our houses had to wait for their builders until the Revolution had been fought, and we can see what sort of towns the Yankees could, by sheer grit, bring into being during our lean and hungry "critical period" from 1790 to 1812. For these houses must have echoed to the rumors and alarms of the War of 1812. Compared to most of the material that the White Pine Series has published, these buildings are definitely simple and austere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
