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Title: The Pine-tree coast
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Subjects: Maine -- Description and travel Atlantic Coast (Me.)
Publisher: Boston. Estes & Lauriat
Contributing Library: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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ver it in his coffin, a broken-hearted man. The mansion was pulled down many years ago. Hawthorne describes it briefly as •• a large, rusty-looking edifice of wood, with some grandeur in the architecture, standing on the banks of the river, close by the site of an old burial-ground, and near where an ancient fort had been erected as a defence against the French and Indians. It is not forty years since this house was built, and Knox was in his glory; but now the house is all in decay, while within a stones throw of it there- a street of smart edifices of one and two stories, occupied by thriving mechanics, which has been laid out where Knox meant to have forests and parks. On the banks of the river, where he intended to have only one wharf for his own West Indian vessels and yacht, there are two wharves with stores and a lime-kiln. Little appertains to the mansion except the tomb and the old burial-ground and the old fort. The family vault referred to was only a few reds east of the mansion. This
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GENERAL KNOX'S MONUMENT. 242 THE PINE-TREE COAST. is also described as a spacious receptacle, an iron door at the end of a turf-covered mound, and surmounted by an obelisk of marble. The remains and obelisk were long- since removed to the cemetery on the hill back of the village. One hardly knows whether to laugh or cry over these evidences of the fluctuations of human prosperity. No demand of progress hastened the down-fall of the old house that was once the envy and admiration of all the country round. A more sorry example of uncalled-for demolition could hardly be imagined. No one seems to know just why it was pulled down ; its site is to this day unoccupied, save by one small frame dwelling and by the name-less odds and ends pertaining to the neighboring shipyard. Two of the out-buildings remain. One was the generals stable; the other was occupied by his servants. The stable was converted into a grist-mill; the offices, into a railway station. One old elm hangs its head in shame o

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