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From: John Lyon <>
Subject: [LDR] Life in Rumbley in the 1860's?
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 05:59:12 -0500

Message text written by Don Andrews:
>2. An 1877 map shows a road of sorts (dashed lines & solid lines)
extending across the 2 miles of marsh to the mainland. [snip] Today there
is no sign
of a connecting marsh hummock on which a road could have been
constructed and the road surface is only about a foot or so above
high tide level.<

I should have added that the land in Fairmount is, like other areas along
the Bayside, a lot marshier than it was 200-300 years ago. While never
exactly "alpine", it was at least enough above the Bay and well-enough
forested to support a number of local shipyards with timber throughout the
colonial period -- hardly obvious looking at the flat featureless marsh
today. Certainly, by the time of the 1877 map, the forests were gone. And
even in the colonial era, there are mentions of causeways for access to
specific shore points. It didn't require a lot of change to the contours
here to change the nature of the landscape.

John Lyon

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