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Title: A guide-book to Norumbega and Vineland
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Shepard, Elizabeth G
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Publisher: Boston, Damrell & Upham
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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of the neighborhood to the remains ofXorumbega, but with visions of Paris and thecities of the old world to recall, he refused tobelieve in the place, and having sought itvainly on the Penobscot in )\Iaine, he struck outall mention of the city and country in his mapof 1632. The dam. In 1631, when Winthrop came, he found the falls caused by the dam which is now before usat Watertown. It is constructed of roundedfield boulders, as the water breaking throughseveral years ago, exposed the structure to view. Docks and The docks are plainly discernible, walled wharves. channels between the islands, these islands oncebeing wharves where the masur wood was load-ed, the dried salmon and the furs and skins.While historically inclined we can look over A house where behind US as we stand facino- tlie dam, and the Washington ^ slept. fii-st house beyond tlie bridge is the one in which AVashington slept the last night before he took command of his forces in Cambridge. This is said to be authentic.
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XOIiUMBEGA AND YINELAXD. 39 Still facing the dam, if one looks np Water- House where Paul Revere town Street that borders the river on the left, made conti-nental paperthe third house Avill present a blackened and money. weather-beaten corner. It is oj)posite the junc-tion of Watertown and California Streets, andin this house continental paper money Avas man-ufactured by Paul Revere. Then leaving the bridge, and walking downpast Lewandos Dye Works, turning around thecorner to the right, one soon reaches the flour-inof mill on the exact si^ot Avliere a flourinof mill The flouringhas always stood ever since the days when thefirst one in New England, and possibly inAmerica, was set up there. It is dependentupon the same water-power that was made useof in the first instance from the Norse dam. There are accounts of weir-fishing; one hun- Weir-fishing.dred thousand fish being reported to have beencaught in two tides, or one day. Roger Clapp,in 1630, bartered with the Indians for fishcaught

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