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The first teacher in the intermediate department of the "Myrick" school was Mrs. L. B. Newell, who taught there for a number of years. Other teachers in the lower departments were Almira Greeley, Cornelia Clark, Myra Small, Sarah Richards, Clara Eusign, Alice Doug- lass, Mary Farnsworth, Emma Sharp, Aunie Sharp, Kate Newell, Minnie Newell, Ida Bacon, Lina Barton, Lyle Cross, John Hoffnagle, Kate Rogers and Mary E. Clark.
The new school house was built in 1889, as the fig- ures on its slate roof attest, on a five site near the shore of the lake. The architect was Cornelius Remington of Ticonderoga, and it has since received two additions, and the accommodations are still declared to be insuf-
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ficent for the yearly increasing number of pupils. It: the new school house, the assistants in the Academic department have been Miss Henrietta C. Royce, Miss Ella Feehan and Miss Daisy Bruffee. Teachers of the Training Class, Miss Mary K. Harrington and Miss Robson. In the intermediate department, Miss Electa Boynton, Mrs. Frances Ramsey and Miss Gertrud- Stevens; in the primary, Miss Marian Ferris, Miss Elda Fish, Miss Susie Bruffee and Miss Florence Shel- don. The faculty now consists of Mr. Ames, Miss Bruffee, Miss Robson, Miss Stevens, Miss Torrance, Miss Sheldon. We are wont to claim that there. is no better school in the county than the Westport High School.
This brings the account of the the school up to the present year, and we must now go back to 1860, and take a look at the town as it was before the war. Fraukness demands the admission that it was then as dull a little place as could be found on all the lake, if measured by the standards of a busy and money-mak- ing world. The declive in lumber had come many years before, and now it had just been made plain that no one knew the secret of turning our irou into gold. The population of the town in 1860 was but 1,981, which showed a decrease of 371 in the last decade. This decrease also continued steadily for another ten years, until in 1870 the town numbered 775 less than it did in 1850.
The business centre of the place was then, as it is now, on Main Street, just north of Washington, in the
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same locality where Charles Hatch had opened the first store fifty years before. Here, on the east side of the street, stood two business blocks, with a number of de- tached buildings on both side of the street. Opposite the stores, on the corner of the present Library lawn, stood Person's Hotel, advertised as "the Lake House," a large two-story building, painted white, with double piazzas and a long range of offices and stables behind it. A stone walk led across the road to the hotel, and at its eastern end stood the town pump. The well be- neath it was covered by a mill stone taken from one of the old grist mills, and the stone lies there yet, although the town pump has been unknown for forty years. South of the hotel stood another block of stores, on the site of the "Over the Way" of the Westport Inn. Here was Hiram Downey's tin shop, and, (perhaps a little later, ) the drug store kept by Dr. William H Richard- son, his advertisement in the county paper covering also a large stock of furniture, with particular attention called to Magenta Dyes and Kerosene Lamps, both re- cent inventions at the time, and a postscript, added in 1863, saying that the doctor would examine applicants for invalid pensions. In the blocks across the roadF. H. Page, in the brick store on the corner, kept a stock of gen- eral merchandise, his principal rivals being the firm of J. W. & C. H. Eddy, a little further to the north. Mr. Page and C. H. Eddy were afterward partners in basi- ness, and later still Mr. Page became a member of the firm of Groves, Page & Co., Troy, N. Y. The corner store was afterward owned by C. H. EAldy & Son, then
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by F. H. Eddy alone, and after the death of Mr. F. H. Eddy in 1901, the basiness which had been continuous in the Eddy family for more than forty years, was soll to Smith & Richards, Mr. George Barton Richards being brother-in-law of Mr. Eddy.
Other business places in this part of the village in 1860 were the drug store of Charles B. Hatch, John C. Osborne's harness shop, Peter P. Bacon's shoe shop, Alvin Davis's hardware store, and William Richards, general merchandise, in the building now occupied by his son, Henry H. Richards. Up the hill, ou the south side of Washington street, Edmund J. Smith had a carriage and blacksmith shop. William Douglass had a blacksmith shop on the site of the barns of the West- port Inn, and Wallace Olds another on Douglass street, on the north side of the bridge. G. W. Stranahan kept a tailor's shop, and there was a milliver in the flat over Hatch's drug store, Mrs. H. P. Potter, followed by Mrs. Harriett Todd, as we find by an advertisement of 1862. Aaron Clark was a carpenter and builder at this time, and had a shop near the large tenement house above the steamboat wharf, while the Joubert brothers had a marble shop on the bank of the brook west of the bridge. The principal business north of the bridge was done by D. L. Allen at the Douglass store and wharf, while his brother, James A. Allen, owned the southern wharf. The line boats which came in daily to the last named wharf were the Canada and the United States. The post master at this time, and for a long term of years, was John H. Low, and the post office was to be
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found exactly where you now find it. There were two hotels, William Richards keeping the Richards House on the north side of the bridge, on the "Ira Henderson lot," on North street. The house was burned in 1893, and the place is now nearly covered by a block of new stores. The physicians were Dr. William H. Richard- son and Dr. Abiathar Pollard, the latter returning to the place in 1861.
I believe the only milling industry at Wadhams at that time was the grist mill, operated by Deacon Wad- hams. The store afterward occupied by Henry C. Avery was kept by Daniel W. Braman, and at some time not far from this period the brick store was known as the "Union Store," from the fact that fifty or sixty of the farmers of the neighborhood attempted a co-op- erative store in this building. The experiment was tried for a number of years, but at length the business became involved, and it passed into the hands of Ham- ilton Sanders.
Up to this time the old-fashioned Yankee peddler was a valuable institution throughout all this rural lake country. Even a pack peddler often carried fine dress goods in his pack, and was, more often than not, a re- spectable, native born citizen, willing to earn his honest penny by adapting himself to circumstances, and carry- ing the mountain to Mahomet by seeking out his cus- tomers at their own doors. Many of us can remember treasured pieces of our grandmothers' finery which we were told had been bought from such-and-such a ped- Aller, who made his regular trips, perhaps up and down
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both sides of the lake, recognized and trusted like any settled merchant. This is all changed now, and a pack peddler means nothing but a semi-tramp who speaks broken Italian, and excites any conscientious and ob- serving dog to frenzy until he is sent off down the road. But forty years ago many a bright young fellow begau as a pack peddler, then by industry and economy rose to the ownership of a cart and team of horses, and then invested his savings in some dry-goods store which he had observed upon his travels as furnishing a good opening for an enterprising young man, perhaps send- ing out peddlers' carts over the country in his turn. One of the dangers of the old-time peddler was that of being murdered for the contents of his pack, in some remote district where night overtook him before he could reach a respectable inn or farm-house, and there are tales of such incidents told by our oldest story- tellers.
Then business reckonings were made in shillings much more commonly than they are now, and "sis- pence" and "nine-pence" were terms often heard. The difference between the York shilling and the Vermont shillings still needed careful mention with the older mer- chants,and was the occasion of frequent jokes, to the be- wilderment of youngsters in school who were learning only the decimal system.
As for the churches, it would seem that at this period they were quite as prosperous as they can be said to be now, with attendance and membership, as a whole, rather in advance of present conditions.
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From 1S41 to 1862 the Congregational church at Wadhams had four pastors. Rev. Charles E. Spooner remained thirteen years, from 1841 to 1854. He was followed by Rev. J. A. Woodhull, who resigned in 1858, and was followed by Rev. S. J. M. Lord, and he, in 1860, by Rev. Henry Lancashire. The church num- bered in 1857 one hundred and three members, but soon afterward began a declension in membership, owing to unfortunate dissensions which arose in the church, chiefly attributable, it would seem, to the injudicious measures of an unwise pastor. Many left the church entirely, some joining other denominations, most of them never to return. A list of male members attend- ing a church meeting in 1860 is given as follows :
Edmund O. Hodgkins, Henry Barton Royce, Francis Pierce, Samuel W. Pierce, Samuel Pierce, Levi Pierce, H. N. Reynolds, William S. Flack, Oscar M. Boutwell, Aaron B. Mack, George T. Stevens, Jesse Saunders, Joel F. Whitney, 2nd, Almond Clark, Egbert Braman, N. M. Clark, W. F. Chatterton, William Hardy, B. F. Whitney, John R. Whitney, Sylvester Young, William Barnard, Joel Freuch, John S. Stanton, William L. Wadhams, Thomas Hadley, Platt Sheldon, Humphrey Sherman, George W. Sturtevant, Joseph Ordway. The deacons were G. W. Sturtevant and Wm. L. Wadbams.
The trustees of the Baptist church elected since 1839, (their names having been alredy given up to that time,) in order of their election, were as follows : Miles M'F. Sawyer, Dan H. Kent, Albert P. Cole, Jonathan Nich- ols, Ralph A. Loveland, Luther Angier, Edmund J.
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Smith, William D. Holcomb, James A. Allen, Henry D. Ranney, Reuel W. Arnold, Merlin Angier, Lorenzo Gibbs, Freeborn H. Page, Henry N. Cole, Harvey Pierce. The pastors from that time to this had been Rev. Cyrus W. Hodges, Rev. J. Birchard, Rev. S. W. Whitney, Rev. Thomas Brandt, (a descendant of the famous Joseph Brant, the chief of the Mobawks during the Revolution,) Rev. Thomas G. Wright, Rev. O. W. Moxley and Rev. F. P. Lang.
The preachers in the M. E. church since its first es- tablishment as a station, in 1839, had been Rev. John W. Belknapp, 1839; Rev. William M. Chipp, 1841; Rev. John Thomson, 1842; Rev. Hiram Chase, 1844; Rev Richard T, Wade, 1845; Rev. Valentine Brown, 1846; Rev. William W. Pierce, 1847 ; Rev. P. H. Hul- burd, 1848 ; Rev. Benjamin Pomeroy, 1849; Rev. William H. Tiffany, 1851 ; Rev. Charles L. Hagar, 1852; Rev. I. F. Yates, 1851; Rev. Peter R. Storer, 1856; Rev. William W. Foster, 1857 ; Rev. Isaac C. Fenton, 1859; Rev. T. W. Harwood, 1861.
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IX.
Civil War to 1875.
John Brown's body lay mouldering in the grave, be- neath his grandfather's ancient tombstone, on the North Elba farm. Sixteen months after it had been borne through Westport, Fort Sumpter was fired upon, and the war began. This pariod formed in every sense a distinct era in the life of the town. Already declining so far as commerce and manufacture were concerned, the withdrawal of more than a hundred young men in the best years of their lives, some for one year, some for four years, some for ever, left the little town to a quiet nearly approaching stagnation. But underneath the outward quiet the most intense emotions prevailed. The principal events in life were the daily arrival of steamboat or stage, with the mail which contained news from the front, or with the arrival or depar- ture of soldiers. In summer the boats came twice a day, a night boat and a day boat, and in winter the stages came in once a day if the weather permitted. There was no railroad, no telegraph, no express office until after the war was over. Hence there was a re- moteness from the seat of war, and a delay in the re- ception of news, greater than that which was felt at the time of the Cuban war. Reliable news of battles came sometimes weeks after the event, in soldiers' letters or
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in newspapers, although there were sure to be disqui- eting rumors immediately after every great battle, to make women's hair turn gray with suspense as they waited to learn the truth.
But still the town life, of course, went ou with tho same outward semblance. The men elected to office at the March town meeting before the actual outbreak of the war, were as follows :
1861.
Town Meeting held at H. J. Persons.
Samuel Root, Supervisor.
Barton B. Richards. Clerk.
Jason Braman, Justice.
Daniel W. Bramau, Assessor.
William Frisbie, Highway Commissioner.
Jonathan F. Braisted, Reuel W. Arnold, Poor Masters.
Charles W. Holcomb, Cicero Sayre, Samuel W. Williams, Inspectors of Election.
James A. Allen, Collector.
James A. Allen. Cyrenus R. Payne, Jeremiah Flinn. Willard Ingalls, Edmond J. Smith, Constables.
Pathmasters. - Henry Wood, Dennis Persons, Israel Pattison, Charles Pattison, William Frisbie, Jeremiah Fling, William P. Merriam, William Harris, James M. Whallon, Simeon Miller, William F. Chatterton. Charles Dunster, Sylvester Young, David R. Woodruff, Ephraim Hill, Johnson Hill, Marcus Hoisington. Joseph Tryou. Aaron B. Maok, Abram Greeley, Alvin Burt. ira Allen. E. Westcott. Henry Sherman. Isaac Lampinan, Orrin Taylor, James E. Barnes, Martin Pierce. Henry Royce.
Voted to bave in future but one Road Commissioner.
Edwin R. Person appointed Inspector of Election in place of Samuel Williams, absent, perhaps on a boating trip.
Peter Ferris appointed Poor Master in place of Reuel Arnold, resigned.
Arnold opened a recruiting office that summer, raised a company and left for the front in September. The town records of the next four years will bere be given as usual.
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1862.
Town Meeting at H. J. Persons.
Samuel Root, Supervisor.
Barton B. Richards, Clerk.
Aaron Clark, Justice.
Harry J. Person, Assessor.
Puiletus D. Merriam and James A. Allen. Poor Masters.
Hinkley Coll. Harvey P. Potter, Edwin B. Low, Inspec- ยท tors of Election.
John Steele, Collector.
John Steele, James A. Allen. Harvey P. Potter, Kit- tredge Cross. Jeremiah Flinn, Constables.
Town Meeting adjourned to the Armory.
James A. Allen appointed Collector in place of John Steele, deceased.
Pathmasters. - Henry Sheldon. Granville Stone. Henry E. Warren, Henry Frisbie, Hiram H. Downey, Nathaniel Allen, William MeIntyre, William P. Merriam, William T. Williams, M. P. Whallon. Simeon Miller, Eli Farnsworth, Joseph E. Smith, W. W. Finney. D. R. Woodruff. Calvin D. Pratt. Levi Harris, Barnard Boyle, Jr .. Abber Slaugh- ter. Matthew H Mack, Jobn J. Greeley, John Ormiston, Solomon Stockwell. Luman F. Hubbard, Abram Sherman, Zelotus Fuller. Austin Taylor, Cortez Bennett, George W. Vaughan. James Fortune.
Then comes a report of a mass meeting:
At a meeting of the citizens of the town of Westport. held in the basement of the Baptist church on the evening of August 2na, 1862 porsuant to notice, George W. Golf was duly elected chairman and Barton B. Richards sec- retary. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Mr. Munsev. Rev. Mr. Harwood, Rev. Stephen Wright, Victor C. Spencer. Byron Pond and Rev. Mr. Sawyer. It was voted to raise a local bounty of $10.00 for each volunteer. and that a Committee of Finance be appointed to solicit subscriptions to raise a fund to pay a local bounty to all volunteers in this town, and transact such other business as may be necessary in connection therewith.
This committee was thus constituted: Samuel Root. chairman, Daniel W. Braman. William H. Richardson, M. D., Harry J. Persons, Philetus D. Merriam William L. Wadhams. Calvin D. Pratt. P. H. Page. D. M. Howard. B. B. Richards. Charles W. Holcomb. George W. Goff. Said
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committee to met at the Iun of HI. J. Person to report ou the Tuesday evening next.
While preparations were thus making for the prose- cution of the war which, had already begun, another, probably the last, of our pioneers crossed the border land of that country whence no emigrant ever returns. Capt. Jesse Braman died in 1862, aged eighty-six years, having passed sixty years of his life in the spot which he bad first seen in all the untamed wildness of na- ture. Bridge and dam and mills, the church, the school-house and the neighborhood dwellings, he bad seen them all built, and for twenty years after his com- ing the place had been known by his name more geu- erally than by any other, Himself a captain in the war of 1812, he had at least three grandsons in the conflict which was raging between North and South when he looked bis last upon the strifes of earth.
This year we find the first mention of the Armory, which was undoubtedly built in the fall of 1861. It still stands in the southern part of the village, on Main street, a large brick building with long narrow windows, not far from the lake shore. It was one of a series of similar armories erected on the frontier that year. I have understood that the selection of Westport as the place for one of these storehouses of military supplies was due to the efforts of Mr. Ralph Loveland. It was never the scene of such activity as the arsenal at Eliza- bethtown during the war of 1812, and never contained military stores. Its history is but a tame and happy record of commonplace events. It was purchased by
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the town in 1874 and used for town meetings and public gatherings of all kinds. Some enterprising young peu- ple fitted it up with a stage and seats and gave a series of private theatricals to the villagers, and it was often used by traveling shows and for school exhibitions after that. From 1865 to 1880 it formed the "Floral Hall" of the County Fair, and was decorated every fall with Kay patchwork quilts, while the air was filled with the conflicting strains of a half dozen cottage organs. When the Fair grounds lay no longer upon the lake shore it was not so well worth while to keep it in repair, and as it was always exceedingly inconvenient as a pub- lie building, and difficult to warm, it was at last sold to Dr. Henry Hickok, about 1885, and has since then been private property, It has recently been used as a paint shop.
1863.
Town Meeting held in the Armory
Samuel Boot. Supervisor.
Witham O. Niebols. Clerk.
Barton B. Richards. Justice.
Alexander Stevenson. Assessop.
Wallace W. Olds. Collector.
Eli Farnsworth and James A. Allen. Overseers of the Poor.
No Inspectors of Election were elected and it fell upon the Justices of the Peace to appoint. They appointed Hinkley Coll. Edwin B. Low and Joseph E. Smith. Then Hinkley Coll refused to act. and C. J. Sawyer was ap- printed in bis place. The Justices were William F. Chat- ferton. David S. MeLeod and Aaron Clark.
Voted to raise $15.00 to purchase stove and pipe for the Arsenal.
Kittredge Cross. Edwin B. Low. A. P. Holt, James A. Allen, Benjamin Leaby. Constables,
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Pathmasters .- Henry Sheldon, Moses W. Coll. Henry E. Warren, Archibald Pattison. William Frisoie Natbanni Alien, Laurens H. White. Joseph James. William T. Wil liams. Aaron Ainger E. Sturtevant, Eli Farnsworth. Charles Danster. W. W. Finney, William Lawrence. Cip- ero Savre, Levi Harris, Julius Vaughan. Joseph Tryou. F. J. Smith, Eleazer Welch. Brainard Howard. Forrest Good- speed. Julius W. Ferris. Morrill Gibbs. Zelotus Fuller. Austin Taylor, Albert Pierce, Isaac T. Johnson, James Fortune.
1864.
Town Meeting held in the Armory.
Daniel W. Bramao. Supervisor.
Edwin B. Low. Clerk.
William L. Wadhams, Justice.
Joseph E. Smith, Assessor.
Harry N. Cole, Highway Commissioner.
William Wallace Olds. Collector.
Charles C Dunster. James A. Allen. Poor Masters.
Luther B. Newel !. Charles Pattersom. Hinkley Coll. It- spectors of Election.
William W. Olds. Edwin B. Low, Jeremiah Flinn. James 1. Allea. Charles Sweatt. Peter Joubert. Coustables.
Pathmasters. - Albert Carpenter, Denis Persons. Israel Patterson, Archibald Patterson. Jeremiah Flinn. William Frisbie. William Melatyre, William P. Merriam. Williami T. Williams, Lather Angier. Levi H. Cross. Edmond Sturt evant. Charles Sweatt. Oscar Taylor. William Lawrence. Howard Farosworth, Harvey Smith, Barney Boyle. Jr .. Harriman Daniels, Aaron B. Mack, Abraham Greeley. Alvin Burt, Salomon Stockwell, Julius Ferris. Barton Rover. Alexander McGill. Orren Taylor, Cortez Bennett. Isaac T. Johnson. F. J. Clement.
Town Meeting adjourned to the Armory.
At a special meeting of the Town Auditors of Westport this 29th day of Mareb, 1864. for the purpose of raising money to pay men as volunteers to fill our quota for the last call of Two Hundred Thousand. it was voted to raise Twelve Hundred Dollars to pay said men.
Signed by D. W. Braman, Supervisor, Edwin B. Low. Town Clerk. and William F. Chatterton, Jason Bramen and Barton B. Richards, Justices.
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A similar meeting April 20th, 1864, voted to raise $1800, with which to pay bounty to six re-enlisted men. each to have $300.00 These men were Charles H. Davis. James E. Barnes. Moses Tatro, Dennis Thomas. George Allen, and Hiram Burt.
At a public meeting of the citizens of Westport beld pur- suant to a call of the Supervisors of Essex county. at the Baptist church. August 30. 1864. Voted Samuel Root. Chairman. Barton B. Richards. Secretary.
The chairman briefly stated the object of the meeting to be for the purpose of raising a town bounty of $50.00, to till our quota with volunteers aud draft, and to discuss the propriety of instructing our supervisor to request the Board of Supervisors to assess the town ou the grand list an amount sufficient for that purpose. Voted that this meeting guarantee the sum of $50.00 to all who may eulist to-night. After some discussion it was moved and voted that the chairman appoint a committee of eight. of which he should be chairman, to arrange a plan to present toour next meeting for raising a bounty. Whereupon the chair announced the following gentlemen as such committee:
D. L. Allen. B. B. Richards. D. W. Braman. George W. Goff, J. W. Eddy, F. H. Page. A. Pattison. At the re- quest of D. W. Braman he was excused from said commit- tee and W. L. Wadhams substituted. Voted that the chair add three to said committee, and Calvin D. Pratt, Joseph E. Smith and D. M. Howard were accordingly added. Voted that an expression of this meeting sanctions the plan of taxing the town to raise the bounty for volunteers. The vote was nearly unanimous in favor. Voted that Or- laudo Kellogg be invited to address our next meeting. Adjourned to next week Thursday eve.
Sigued by Samuel Root, Chairman, Barton B. Richards. Secretary, and Edwin B. Low. Town Clerk.
This year and the two following -- 1864-5-6-Dr. William H. Richardson. one of our Westport physicians. was sent to the Assembly.
1865.
Town Meeting held in the Armory.
Daniel W. Braman. Supervisor. Reuben J. Ingalls. Clerk. Jason Braman, Justice.
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David L Allen and Jonathan F. Braisted. Assessors.
Noel Merrill. Highway Commissioner.
Hosea B. Howard. Collector.
Peter Ferris and Charles C. Dunster. Poor Masters.
Reuel W. Arnold, Orange Gibbs. Albert Pierce. Insp ... tors of Election.
Peter Joubert. Hosea Howard. Charles H. Pattison. Wi. liam Salls and Thomas Dickerson, constables.
Patumasters. - O. B. Howard. Melvin Carpenter. R. W. Arnold, Heury Frisbie. Albert Cole, Charles Holcomb, .IL mon A. Allen. William P. Merriam. Merlin W. Angier. Cyrus . B. Rovee. Edmund Sturtevant. Elijah Wright, Orrin Hardy, Rents Hosted. A. P. Hartwell, Epbrain Hill, Harvey Smith. Abram Olds, Harriman Daniels. A! bert Carpenter. Warren Pooler. Brainard B. Howard. Solomon Stockwell. Lee Prouty. Abram Sberman, John E. Smith. Orson Taylor. Martin Vangbao, Franklin Pierce. Webster Royce. Riley Palmer.
This year, I am told, the arched stone bridge in the village was built, although it is not mentioned in the Town Book. There had been a wooden bridge at this place since the time of the early settlers. In August of 1897 there was a flood which took ont the eastern. end of the bridge, destroying the smaller arch. This small arch was built to preserve an ancient right of way for the flume which ran to the Old Stone Mill, and when the bridge was rebuilt it was necessary still to respect this right of way, although nothing is less likely than that the water-power will ever be carried past the bridge again. In June of 1903 the upstream wall of the bride .. gave way, but repairs were carried on with no interrup- tion to trathe. In 1865, and again in 1897, a temporary bridge was built a little way up stream.
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