Old Scituate (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Old Scituate (Classic Reprint) written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Scituate The town lost much of its extensive territory in 1727, when the new town of Hanover was incorporated, and in 1788, the Two Mile was annexed to Marshfield. During the last century two changes in territorial bounds were made. In 1823, a part of Scituate near the Gulph was annexed to Cohasset, and again, in 1840, the line was re-established and straightened, and a part of each town annexed to the other. The last division was made February 14, 1849, when the south part of the town petitioned to be set off, and incorporated as the town of South Scituate. In 1888, that name was changed to Norwell, for Henry Norwell, of Boston, a summer resident, whose wife was of wellknown Scituate ancestry. The reasons for the division are not clearly understood at the present day, except by inference, but at the time of the division, Scituates chief interests were her farms and her fishing industry. There were no summer residents at her beaches to swell her valuation, and the shore property was then of little intrinsic value, except for the kelp cast up by the surf. This highly valued product of the sea was the cause of much interesting litigation in years past. South Scituate's shipbuilding industry was decidedly on the wane in 1849, but the desire to maintain her own roads and schools may have been a dominant factor in bringing about the division. It is remembered that South Scituate was thought at the time to have got the better of the bargain, as the Town Hall, then at Sherman's Corner, and the Town Farm in South Scituate Village fell to her share. We now realize that Scituate was the fortunate partner of the contract, her then undeveloped shore property having become her greatest asset. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.