Identifier: summerdaysdownea00swee (find matches)
Title: Summer days down East
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Sweetser, M. F. (Moses Foster), 1848-1897
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Publisher: Portland : Chisholm Brothers
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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al boats,in which the villagers and infrequent summer travellers pursue thebass and perch which swarm among the islands. Near by is Rome,the least of rural villages, yet not without heroes worthy of its name,for forty of its Yankee Romans died in the field during the civil war. Northward of Belgrade station the train soon reaches the shore ofMessalonske Lake, which it follows for several miles through a thinlysettled farming country to Oakland (or West VVaterville), the terminusof the railroad to North Anson, whence it descends to beautifulWaterville, on the Kennebec. Oakland is a manufacturing borough,rich in the possession of the Messalonske River, which, in fallingdownward over the edges of the plateau toward the Kennebec makesmany highly prized water-powers, dear to Yankee men. One of theseis the largest scythe-factory in the world. Here our route meets theEastern Division of the Maine Central Railroad, which left it at Cum-berland, and a single line runs hence eastward to Bangor.
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