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Identifier: storyofmarthasvi02hine
Title: 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;
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hine, Charles, Gilbert, 1859- [from old catalog]
Subjects: Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, Hine brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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to tlieleft of the rigging the distance sliows the old mill. OAK BLUFFS TO VINEYARD HAVEN. 85 ry the site of a lighthouse that marked the head of the harbor,though it never saw active service within his time. This musthave been in commission by 1858 or 9. The Hght keeper wasMoses C. Cromwell, who lived in the next house toward the vil-lage at the waters edge. Before this Hghthouse came intobeing there were here three Bug or range lights, situated oneon either side of the hospital site and on one of the islands be-low, probably Ferryboat Island. The list of lighthouses pub-lished for 1857 has this to say concerning these:— Holmes Hole Beacons, at Holmes Hole Harbor, rangingwith the two channels to the anchorage: 3 fixed lights, red,white and green; 6th order lens; built in 1854. Ranges forentering the harbor at Holmes Hole. Red and white lightsrange for the western entrance and green and white lightsrange for the eastern entrance. 86 MARTHAS VINEYARD. VINEYARD HAVEN, XEB HOLMES HOLE.
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THE VILLAGE. Suppose we quote Pro-fessor Shaler concerningthis our village: It isone of those accidentalvillages with none of thepremeditation belongingto the towns which havestraight streets and well-aligned houses. One ofthose natural asylumswhere old sea captainscome to end their days,and to-day we can say oldcaptains of finance com.e to prolong them. Here still flows theold blood of the sea kings. =• =•= =?? The old salt is the bestspecimen of the retired man of small means the world can show.:;: :;: :;= Vcry many of the old salts have been whaling captains,and have been brought up in the best school of courage theworld has ever known. The evening silhouette of the village as one approachesalong the Beach Road will, seen under proper conditions oflight and shade, be long remembered, with its trees outlinedagainst the dusk of coming night, the shadowy forms of its Evening silhouette of tlie Village. VINEYARD HAVEN NEE HOLMES HOLE. 87 homes, the lights sug-gesting comfort an
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