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The heart of Camp Hall was the central fire circle with rustic log benches. Here, campers gathered for evening activi-ties of singing and storytelling. The camp extended from the administration building south toward Aucoot Cove, with trees and undergrowth providing screening from Converse Road.

Girls attending Camp Hall were divided by age range into units: Holly Unit for 7–10 year olds; Pine Unit for the 11–12 year olds; and Oak Unit for girls 13–16. Each unit lived in tents that each held 6–8 girls pitched on wooden platforms; the tents were arranged around a campfire area for each unit. This view is also from about 1941.

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This scene, at Aucoot Cove in 1936, shows a variety of waterfront activities offered at Camp Hall, including swimming supervised by a Red Cross lifesaver and canoeing. Girls reached Aucoot Cove via a woodland path to Aucoot Marsh. From the edge of the marsh, a boardwalk carried them to the waterfront.

This open-air mess hall also served as an arts and crafts workshop. Camp Hall operated for eight weeks each summer. The registration fee was $1.00, and the weekly camp fee was $5.00. Check in started at 3:00 PM on Saturdays, with first supper served at 6:00 PM. Programs included: Second Class, First Class (badge rankings), plus campcrafts, singing, dramatics, and swimming. The camp ran on a patrol system: all campers were assigned a share of the daily chores.

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The former Handy’s Tavern at 152 Front Street in the heart of Marion Village was built in 1812. It became a popular rest stop on the Plymouth-New Bedford stagecoach line. The tavern’s demise was a direct result of the railroad’s arrival in 1855. In 1904, the merger of several women’s groups resulted in the formation of the Sippican Woman’s Club (char-tered to promote “social and intellectual improvement”). The club purchased the Handy’s Tavern property in 1922 and continues to own it to this day. This scene dates to about 1915, when the front steps still led directly up from the street.

Piney Point Beach Club at 93 Piney Point Road opened sometime before the great Hurricane of 1938. In this aerial view taken about 1955, several of the resort-style beach cabanas are visible to the left of the main beach house. Prior to the 1938 hurricane, there were as many as 30 cabanas; only 18 survived the 1954 hurricane; the few remaining were all removed in 1991. When the area was opened up for development in 1946, there were only two homes on Piney Point.

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This modest shingled house at 12 Main Street was built in 1820. In 1900, a group of local men felt the need for a retreat to pursue “social intercourse and general improvement.” Calling themselves the Fin de Siècle Club, the group rented this building for $50 a year. Membership was limited to 75 men of at least 18 years of age. Perhaps seeking to add some additional luster to their membership roster—the club invited the noted journalist and playwright Richard Harding Davis to join as an honorary member in 1901. The Fin de Sièclers evidently enjoyed success over time, as they engaged local architects Oglesby & Crapo to design a new single-story clubhouse at 7 School Street in 1905. In 1923, ownership of that clubhouse passed to Laura B. T. Johnston, and the structure remains in use as a private residence.

The Sippican Tennis Club’s clubhouse, designed by Charles Allerton Coolidge in the Queen Ann Style, was erected in 1908 at 20 Holmes Street. The Club was founded with the issuance of 112 shares at $100 each; a $5,000 mortgage underwritten by Wareham Savings Bank financed the building of the clubhouse. This photo of the west façade shows the broad porch that extends around three sides of the clubhouse, providing expansive views of the clay courts on both east and west sides. The postcard manufacturer conspicuously pasted in images of two automobiles to enliven the otherwise static composition.

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The name Kittansett comes from two Wampanoag words: “kittan” (“sea”) and “sett” (“near”). A group of thirteen wealthy Marion landowners founded a corporation in 1922 “to provide and maintain proper grounds and facili-ties for playing the game of golf and other sports as may be authorized by the board of governors and to maintain a clubhouse and such other buildings as may be deemed advisable for the accommodations of its members.” The buildings and grounds were heavily damaged by the Hurricane of 1938. The club later served America’s defensive interests during World War II, when all of Butler’s Point was taken over by a Coast Artillery Unit. More than 100 G.I.s were billeted in Winter House, the main clubhouse shown here, along with Hurricane House. This force manned and maintained the two large artillery pieces installed on Butler’s Point to protect naval convoys forming up at the west end of the Cape Cod Canal. These forces remained in place until April of 1944.

The original clubhouse at Kittansett pictured above has been greatly enlarged in this view from the golf course dating to 1950. Despite its exposed oceanfront location, the club has successfully weathered storms and hurricanes over the years since its inception.

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The Beverly Yacht Club (BYC) has occupied several locations in Marion over the years. The BYC takes its name from Beverly, MA on the North Shore, the town in which the founding members had summer homes. Originally a yacht-racing organization, BYC held regattas in many harbors on the Massachusetts coast before settling in Marion. The clubhouse at Butler’s Point was built on land purchased in 1913. After the 1938 hurricane swept this clubhouse away, BYC’s neighbor, the Kittansett Club, added a building on its grounds, calling it “Hurricane Hall,” to serve as the yacht club’s base of operations. But soon after, with the outbreak of World War II, the Army commandeered both clubs’ headquarters. In 1950, the BYC moved operations to the east end of Barden’s Boatyard, near Town Wharf in the heart of Sippican Village. Only four years later, the Hurricane of 1954 ended the club’s stay there.

The current Beverly Yacht Club, at left behind flagpole, viewed from the Inner Harbor about 1967. In 1955, the BYC membership had the opportunity to purchase this property at 99 Water Street as its new home. Complete with a fine pier, the structure had served as a chandler’s home, a rest stop on the stagecoach line in the early nineteenth century, and later as the residence of retired Rear Admiral Andrew Harwood, who founded St.Gabriel’s Episcopal Church. The BYC has made many improvements to the property over the past half century.

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The Boarding House (lower image) at the Adventists’ Camp was destroyed by Hurricane Carol in 1954. This early view shows the Boarding House as it looked about 1907. The covered area to the left side of the building was a concession that sold candy and other goods after lunch and dinner times. Local teenagers got five cents per day to wait tables, which required two seatings to accommodate all campers. Camp meetings ran from Saturday to the following Sunday. Cove Cottage in the upper image has not been identified as relating to the Adventists’ Camp.

In 1905, the Tremont Advent Christian Campground in the Tremont area of Wareham was badly damaged by fire. The Adventists moved their camp to Marion on land adjacent to Hammett’s Cove at the end of Oakdale Avenue. The Marion camp started out modestly as an aggregation of tents, but eventually a score or more of cottages was erected, along with a meeting hall and tabernacle. The Adventists’ summertime gatherings for singing, music, evangelists’ sermons, and missionaries’ visits continue to this day. This scene of three of the named cottages dates to about 1925.

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Barden’s Boatyard employee Bill Coulson surveys the aftermath of the Hurricane of ’38 from the rooftop of its ruined boat shed. During the storm. Fred Barden and Guy Hudson evacuated the shed, but later returned by boat to retrieve the company’s ledgers from the already-flooded building. The rising water floated several large Herreshoffs stored inside until they pushed through the roof. Barden’s and Hudson’s boat capsized, but they clambered into an upright dinghy and rowed until they grounded near the Music Hall. They then waded and swam to Barden’s home at 157 Front Street.

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Coastal living in New England is about endurance, survival, and sometimes rebuilding in the wake of severe storms and hurricanes. Marion has received few exemptions from punishing weather over its history. Before the era of named hurricanes, killer

storms were recalled by year, as in the Hurricane of ’38, perhaps the cruelest to Marion in terms of destruction (though no lives were lost). But hurricanes Carol and Bob, among others, both had their way with the town and its wealth of watercraft, as, no doubt, will some storm in the future.

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The aftermath of a cyclonic storm on August 26, 1924 is depicted in this rare real-photo card. The scene is looking eastward on Main Street toward the intersection with Front Street known as Four Corners. A large elm tree on the side of what is now the Marion General Store has toppled across Main Street and tangled into the branches of the trees in the churchyard of the Congregational Church.

The Hurricane of 1938 was, by far, the most extensively documented in real-photo postcards of all of Marion’s many encounters with severe coastal weather. This view shows the remnants of two of the guest cottages at the Kittansett Club on Butler’s Point. The Club maintained several cottages with letter designations. Cottages F and I were closest to the tip of the Point and were swept clean from their foundations. The remains of one of them came to rest against the base of a telephone pole nearby.

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This Kittansett cottage—letter designation unknown—was transported by the 1938 storm’s ferocious winds for over a mile, to finally pile up as rubble against this brake of scrub pines. A Mission-Style settle and a folding chair seem to be the only salvageable items from the whole house.

The Beverly Yacht Club, twenty-six years at its original location at the tip of Butler’s Point when the 1938 Hurricane struck, was a total loss after the storm. This real-photo view shows the foundation stones and fragments of the wooden dock as the only recognizable remains after pounding winds and an abnormally strong tidal surge had done their work. Fortuitously, the BYC scrapbooks had been sent to Boston just days before, and thus were spared. Offshore, the storm had cleared Bird Island of all structures save the lighthouse tower.

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One of the smaller cottages near the shoreline at Kittansett, this structure took the brunt of the 1938 hurricane head-on and was knocked from its foundation, the front of the cottage collapsing under the pounding of wind and surf. Whatever sand was once deposited here was swept away, leaving only rocks and debris.

This is a view northward from Veterans’ Park at Old Landing. The wreckage in the foreground is the home of Henry and Susie Delano. Behind it, and still standing though heavily damaged, is the house belonging to Preston Alley, which was later moved to a more secure location at 459 Mill Street (now Route 6), where it was repaired. The white uprights visible behind the tree at right are all that remained of Watts’ Boatyard. Two of Watts’ sheds were washed away, and his shop burned to the ground during the storm. The shop contained about twelve Herreshoff 12 1½½2s, four 15s, and a 27-foot ChrisCraft—all complete losses. Many large boats moored in the harbor were washed onto shore, but most were salvageable.

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The house still standing here is at 9 Weanno Street on Converse Point. The piles of debris surrounding the structure suggest that other homes in the area were not so lucky to survive this intact. The tidal surge was estimated to be between twelve and fifteen feet above normal, and winds averaged 60 mph, with substantially higher gusts. Overall, Marion lost 89 buildings, with 187 partially destroyed. The Board of Assessors estimated the replacement value of private property at $2,340,860. Insurance underwriters estimated damage to boats at $100,000. Marion suffered no loss of life in the storm, despite the extent of the calamity.

Surprisingly, after hurricanes began to be named in 1954, it wasn’t until Hurricane Bob on August 19, 1991 that another post-storm postcard was issued. This view is eastward toward the East Marion water tower, and bears evidence of the force of Bob, with 108 mph winds and a tidal surge of over 17 feet. These were only a few of the many large boats that broke from their moorings and washed up into the salt marshes. Marion was well prepared for Bob, with a command center set up at the fire and police station. Nearly all roads were blocked by downed trees, and most residents were without electricity for five days after Bob passed through.

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Up to this point, our postcard tour of Marion has been arranged into relatively coherent categories. Some subjects cross over into more than one

section, which provides different views and perspectives. But here are the singular, the odd, the humorous, and some sentimental cards that bear Marion’s name. Many of these are stock postcards overprinted with various town names for local sale. Among these are the “Greetings from” variety. “A Miscellany” also reflects the possibility of new discoveries of heretofore unknown cards. Late in the preparation of this book a collector offered up a selection of such cards that would have earlier been sorted into their respective sections. They are included here among the miscellaneous for the sake of adding a bit more information and color to a history of Marion that will always remain incomplete.

An unusual documentary postcard of one of Marion’s more colorful citizens—Plummer Handy, a clam digger. Mr. Handy was a tiny, deaf man, who gained notoriety about town for his antics. As a young man rebuffed by his sweetheart, Roberta Bates, Handy went out to Point Rock at Lewis and Water streets on Sippican Harbor bent on literally drowning his sorrow when the tide came in. He was rescued before he perished and lived to a ripe old age, as he’s seen here.

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A Miscellany

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Marion socialites on the porch of Miss Edith Austin’s home at 75 Water Street, about 1910. From left are: Marjorie Thayer Clark, second wife of Bruce Clark, who was the brother of Marion’s foremost portrait painter, Cecil Clark Davis, seated next to her. In 1899, Cecil Clark married Richard Harding Davis—the well-known war correspondent, popular novelist,. and playwright of the time. Mrs. Davis painted portraits of Charles Lindbergh, Alexander Graham Bell, and Ethel and Lionel Barrymore, among many other notables during her long career. The Sippican Historical and Preservation Society owns a portrait of Marjorie Thayer Clark painted by Mrs. Davis. Third from left is Miss Edith Austin, formerly a summer visitor who moved to Marion full-time in 1911, became deeply involved in town affairs, and was a staunch supporter of Tabor Academy. At right is Nancy Pegram Clark, first wife of Bruce Clark, who married him in 1899. Note the tobacco use evident among the privileged young women pictured here: Marjorie Clark holds a pipe and Nan Clark has a cigarette in her hand, with a smoke stand nearby.

This house at 194 Spring Street, still standing, was the birthplace of H. Edmund Tripp, teacher at Vermont Academy, local historian, and author of Reflections on a Town. Mr. Tripp served as curator of the Sippican Historical Society for more than 25 years. The family posing in this real-photo card is that of Harrison Tripp, taken about 1908.

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This farmhouse at 343 Delano Road in East Marion is still standing today. The message on reverse of the card, dated August 31, 1905, reads in part: “These are not the Doves of Peace from the Portsmouth Conference, but geese at Great Head, East Marion. . . .”

The dairy farm of Seth L. Dexter at 586 Front Street, about 1906. Popularly known as Locust Farm, thanks to the property’s many locust trees, this farm stayed in the Dexter family for several generations. The Sippican Historical and Preservation Society collection includes a glass milk bottle with the name “Seth L. Dexter” molded into its side.

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A horse-drawn barge in front of the Sippican Hotel on Water Street, about 1910. This was the prevalent means of conveyance to town for travelers coming to Marion by train as well as those stopping at the trolley station at Main and Spring streets (now Centennial Park). Notice how narrow Water Street is at this time, with the newest addition to the hotel almost abutting the roadway. At right is one of the town’s elegant gaslights—gas service having arrived in 1901—supplied from a plant on Spring Street now known as The Old Stone Studio.

This small Queen Anne-Style house was built at 35 Pleasant Street early in the last century, on land that then belonged to Ebenezer Holmes. The home still stands, having undergone extensive renovations in recent years.

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A view looking west on Pitcher Street with Split Rock in the foreground and Rose Cottage in the distance on the far side of Pleasant Street. The house gained its name from the numerous rose bushes planted around it. A U-shaped drive extended up the sides of the property and around the back of the house, with four conical fieldstone pillars flanking the driveway’s two entrances.

Another perspective on Split Rock from the same period, this one looking south on Pleasant Street toward Converse Road. The large pine tree growing through the rock came down in the Hurricane of 1938.

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The estate known as Hazelmere, at today’s 1 West Drive, on the east side of Sippican Harbor, was the summer home of Charles Irving Thayer, a wool-dying merchant from Boston. Thayer’s business was so successful that he was able to retire at age 40. He built Hazelmere in 1884 and named it after a village in England. Thayer’s elder daughter Marjorie married Cecil Clark Davis’s brother, Bruce. Cecil and Bruce were the children of John and Louise Clark. Mr. Clark, a successful Chicago businessman, is primarily remembered for installing telephone service in that city. Mr. And Mrs. Clark, Cecil, Marjorie, and Bruce are all buried in Evergreen Cemetery at the junction of Converse Road and Route 6, their graves marked by nondescript small, flat headstones. Hazelmere was razed about 1930.

The Greek Revival-Style farmhouse of George S. Bates at 617 Mill Street (now Route 6), about 1903. The structure was built in the 1840s, and the 1867 Street Directory lists Bates as a farmer and trader. This unused real photo postcard surfaced in Wareham shortly after the rest of this book had already been sequenced. None of the veteran postcard collectors involved in the book’s preparation had ever seen it before, raising the possibility that other heretofore-unknown postcard images of Marion will continue to be found in the future.

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An advertising postcard circa 1922 for the Old Landing Tea Room, at the the southeast corner of the intersection of Front Street and Route 6, offering “Luncheon, Tea, Dinner. Rooms for overnight guests by reservation.” The card goes on to offer a “Specialty this week—tea leaves read, gratis.” The building has also served as an antique shop and has been carved up into professional office suites in recent years.

The Old Landing was better known as the Capt. Stephen Hadley House. Once used as an inn, it had extensive gardens for the enjoyment of guests. The outbuildings, now razed, are shown in this view.

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This home is at 300 Front Street—originally Number 72 prior to the renumbering of the street about 1950. The structure started as a saltbox, but over the course of time and ravaged by many storms that have pounded the Old Landing area, its profile has changed substantially. However, it remains in the hands of the same family from the time of this postcard, about 1910.

A rare 1905 real-photo postcard of Rose Cottage. The structure became well-known in Marion as the boyhood home of Capt. Benjamin Spooner Briggs, skipper of the mystery brigantine Mary Celeste, which left its anchorage in New York Harbor, on November 5, 1872, and was found adrift with no one on board on December 4, off the Azores. The fate of Capt. Briggs, his wife, child, and crewmen remains unsolved. Rose Cottage was lost in a fire on September 10, 1961.

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This picturesque lane once led westward from Front Street just north of Number 196 to the newly created extension of Spring Street that connected with Mill Street (now Route 6). It’s uncertain how and why the path took on the “Lover’s Lane” appellation. Some attribute it to the young Frances Cleveland, wife of the President, both of whom were frequent summer visitors to Marion and guests at the nearby Gilder Studio. Today, a town access road follows approximately the same route through the pine woods, past the huge split boulder next to which an Indian chief is reputed to be buried.

In 1902, Barnabas Holmes deeded a tract of woodland between Spring Street and Mill Street (Route 6) to the town. As protected land, Holmes Woods still extends from behind The Old Stone Studio property at 46 Spring Street and adjacent fire and police stations all the way to the highway. This fireplace in the woods dates from the 1930s or earlier, and was the scene of many Sunday School picnics and Scouts’ outings over the years, but is now overgrown.

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This view of Marion’s R.F.D #1 mail wagon provides a vivid example of how postcards in the pre-telephone era were used in a similar way to today’s instant messaging. The card is postmarked March 13, 1908 at 10:00 AM in Marion and is addressed to a Marion resident. The message, simply “Will see you this PM.” attests to the speed of in-town mail delivery at that time.

The granite and cast-iron horse watering trough on Front Street at the head of Island Wharf is inscribed “A Gift of Elizabeth Taber through the Trustees of the Improvement Fund.” Though Mrs. Taber’s will provided Marion with a trust fund of $20,000 upon her death in 1888—to be used for parks, fountains, trees, and other beautification proj-ects—this fountain was not erected and dedicated until 1908. This view shows the shoreline prior to the landfill that established the current field and bandstand area on the wharf. Previously, an inlet extended south almost to Island Wharf Road—sometimes even bisecting it. Note the electric lamp atop the fountain. On the opposite side to the horse trough was a bubbler for thirsty humans, and low to the ground, a trough from which dogs could drink.

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A postcard from the 1910–19 era, announcing a fire department meeting. The Marion Fire Department was orga-nized on March 6, 1905. By 1918, Central Station on South Street housed two motorized trucks. The formation of the Fire Department supplanted the three earlier fire brigade sheds, located near the North Marion Grammar School (now the Baptist Church) on Front Street, on Point Road in the vicinity of Allen’s Point, and near Washburn’s Store in the Little Neck area (near Route 6 and Hermitage Road). Each of the brigade’s sheds housed a hand-drawn pumper that carried 500 feet of 2-inch hose.

Only two different postcards are known of the Marion Fire Department, which celebrated its 100th Anniversary in 2005. None is known that pictures the old Central Station on South Street. Here in the current Spring Street Station, built 1956, is old Engine Number 1, a Ford 1984 E-1 pumper. In 2004, the Department put into service a new Emergency Rescue Typhoon pumper, which was given the Number 1 front-line position. Thus, old Engine Number 1 was relegated to Number 4.

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Every era of postcard publishing includes its smattering of souvenir, comic, and sentimental cards. Some of these cards were published generically for sale everywhere. Others were designed to be overprinted with the names of specific towns to make them more appealing to local audiences. The four cards on this page poke gentle fun at the rituals of courtship and marriage in a more innocent time. The card lower right suggests that even a gentleman must suffer consequences for falling prey to overindulgence.

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Vintage postcards of the “Greetings from” variety let recipients know where senders had been and sometimes suggested their longing for company, as in the “Wish you were here” genre. The gross exaggeration was another popular postcard conceit, seen in the “giant fish” theme on page 6 of this book (facing the Contents), as well as the “We grow some peaches in Marion, MA” advertising postcard on its last leaf. Many topical souvenir postcards were created during the Golden Age, with picturesque, sometimes clever, sometimes romantic, sometimes slightly risqué themes and captions.

The sentiments of the demure young lady pictured above are juxtaposed with the slightly naughty image of under-wear on a clothesline below, to give a sense of the range of these topical postcards.

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IndexA

Adams, Maude 46Allanach, John 77, 114Allen, Bessie and Clark 88Allen, Capt. Frederick 92Allen, Capt. Henry 28, 29, 81, 100–01, 109Allen, Mary E. 28Allen, Silas B. 80Allens Point 40, 41, 75, 92, 153Alley, Preston 140Andrew, William A. 20Angle, Richard 20architecture

Colonial Revival 27Federal 23Greek Revival 148Italianate 100–01Jacobean 111Mission 139Queen Ann 30, 103, 132, 146Shingle Style 56, 71, 82, 85Tudor 76

Arne, Dr. James 104Aucoot Cove 129–30Austin, Edith 29, 30, 51, 62, 144Austin, Judge Herbert 30, 51Austin, Judge James, 25, 28–31, 62Azores Islands 150

BBabbitt, Sr., Mr. & Mrs. Edwin V. 81Babcock, M.A., lightkeeper 36Barden, Fred 136. See also boatyards and

shipyards: Bardens BoatyardBarlow, James 20Barrymore, Ethel and Lionel 46, 144Bates, George S. 148Bates, Miss Nancy 15Bates, Miss Roberta 15, 143beaches 33, 34, 56, 57, 60, 61, 122, 131

Piney Point 131Silvershell 33, 56, 57, 61Town Beach 60, 61

Bell, Alexander Graham 144bells and belfries 18, 36, 69, 81, 84Bennett, F.H. 57Beverly, Massachusetts 134Beverly Yacht Club. See clubs: Beverly

Yacht ClubBird Island 33, 34, 36, 37, 139Blankenship Family 15Blankenship, P.C. 19Blankenship’s Cove 49blimp 64boats and ships

Allegro, yacht 40Bestevaer, schooner 117Beverly Dinghies 32Black Duck, schooner 107, 116, 117catboats 41, 44ChrisCraft 140Eduardo, yachtfigurehead 55, 63Herreshoff H-12 1/2s 38, 140Mary Celeste, brigantine 150Parthenia, yacht 72Philadelphia, steamship 116Tabor Boy, yacht 107, 117

boatyards and shipyardsBardens Boatyard 38, 39, 42, 134, 136Eben Holmes boat shop 26shipbuilding 25, 28, 29, 33

Watts Boatyard 140Boston, Massachusetts 26–28, 54, 56, 67,

70, 76, 77, 81, 85, 102, 121, 139, 148Bourne, Massachusetts 28Bourne, Senator Jonathan 46Braitmayer, Mrs. Otto 26Briggs, Capt. Benjamin Spooner 150Briggs, Ernest W. 86Brooks, Bishop Philip 46Burbank, Sarah 94Bushnell, Rev. Samuel C. 110businesses and industries 86, 97

American Research & Management Co. 122

Ansel Gurney House 95A & P grocery store 91A.S. Gurney & Co 22, 95Bardens Market and Freezer 20Bay State Gas Company of Maine 92Brownes Pharmacy 19Chadwicks Store 10Church & Stowell 18, 19C.W. Westons pharmacy 91Dutchland Farms 94F.B. Bardens Store 20Franklin A. Winters Insurance Co. 20Gateway Bus Co. 100Gilder Studio, The 92, 151Hadley Store 9, 88Handyís Tavern 90, 131Hillers livery stable and garage 47, 49Hillers Sippican Garage 10, 20, 22, 48Howard Johnsons 94Jimmy Nelsons barber shop 13John Alden Store 19Luces grocery 19Marble Hardware 91Marconi Telegraph Company 96Marion Gas Company 10, 92Marion General Store 18, 20, 22, 138Marion Taxi 97Marty Sullivan clothing store 90Old Landing Tea Room 149Old Stone Studio 10, 60, 92, 93, 146, 151Old Stone Studio Coffee Shop 92Penny Pinchers Exchange 85Petersens ice cream 87, 91Red & White grocery store 91Ross Shop 20Stinsons Garage 95Sundries Patent Medicines 21Towne Shop, The 90Village Shop and Tea House 12Wareham Savings Bank 132Washburn Electric 91Washburns Store 153whaling industry 9, 31, 33, 35, 92

Butler, June 29Butlers Point 33–37, 39, 85, 133–34, 138–39Buzzards Bay 25, 34, 41, 66–73, 75, 100Byrd, Admiral Richard 16, 96

Ccamps and camping 126, 135, 128–30, 135

Camp Hall 128–30Herbert Austin Camp 102Tremont Advent Christian Camp-

ground 135Cape Cod Canal 133Card, Joseph 94Centennial Park 120, 146Century Magazine, The 31, 89

Charles Neck 33, 34, 70Chatham, Massachusetts 97churches 78, 85

Baptist Church 153Congregational Chapel 11, 78, 85, 102First Congregational Church of Marion

9, 11, 78, 82, 84, 85, 102, 104, 138Sewing Society 104

Methodist Church 84Sippican Parish in Fourth Precinct 80South Meetinghouse 22, 80St. Gabriels Episcopal Church 18, 79,

82, 83, 104, 134St. Ritas Catholic Church 79, 84, 85Universalist Church 58, 78, 82, 84, 120Wickenden Chapel 84

Clark, Bruce 144, 148Clark, Cecil 29–31, 144, 148Clark, John and Louise 30, 148Clark, Marjorie Thayer 144Clark, Nancy Pegram 144Clark, William, shipbuilder/architect 89Cleveland, President Grover and Frances

28, 31, 46, 89, 92, 93, 151Club Hall 11clubs 126, 135

Beverly Yacht Club 32, 35, 38, 39, 45, 52, 65, 82, 85, 107, 127, 134, 139

Fin de Siècle Club 15, 127, 132Kittansett Club 35, 39, 85, 127, 133–34,

138–40Hurricane House 133Winter House 133Sippican Tennis Club 127, 132Sippican Woman’s Club 20, 90,

127, 131Piney Point Beach Club 131

Cobb, Fred 18Converse, Col. Harry E. 67–73, 91, 124, 125Converse, Parker 29, 71Converse Point 34, 141Coolidge, Charles Allerton, architect 132cottages. See estates and cottagesCoulson, Bill 136Cushing, Benjamin D. 104Cutler, Frederick 27

DDaggett, Fred L. 110, 111Davis, Cecil Clark 29, 144, 148Davis, Clark 25, 31Davis, Elizabeth 104Davis, Rebecca Harding 25, 31Davis, Richard Harding 11, 16, 30, 31, 46,

132, 144Davis, Townsend 50de Kay, James 11DeLand, Margaret 46Delano, Charles Henry 91Delano, Henry and Susie 140Delano, Walton 22Dexter, Seth L. 145Dow, Richard S. 26Drew, John 46Dreyer, Misses E.S. and H.L. 23

EEast Marion 33, 37, 40, 72, 75, 76, 94, 141, 145Eaton, Solomon K., architect 80, 82Eisenhower. President Dwight D. 54, 56Elizabeth Islands 35, 116Ellis, Dr. Walton N. 20

estates and cottagesAustin estate 29Edward Hamblin Cottage 16Great Hill 67, 75, 77Grey Gables, Bourne 28Hazelmere 148Lewis Cottage 57Moorings, The 64, 66, 75, 124

gardens 67, 69, 73, 75, 77, 149Gate House 70Observatory and Bell Tower 69

Townsend/Davis Cottage 31Weeks house 111William S. Whiting Cottage 75, 92

Evergreen Cemetery 123, 148

FFall River, Massachusetts 85, 116, 122Fireman Centerfor the Performing Arts

112, 114Fireman, Paul and Phyllis 112Forbes, Alexander 107, 116, 117Four Corners 9, 19, 20, 22, 88, 138Freidland, Sheldon 89

GGamewill fire alarm system 69Garty, Louis 90G.H. Hollbrock Co. 81Gibbs, James Gordon 57Gibson, Charles Dana 46Gilder, Helena de Kay 11, 92Gilder, Richard Watson 31, 46, 89–93, 151Girl Scouts 5, 127, 128, 151Graf Zeppelin 96Great Head 145Griffen, Tristram, architect 70

HHadley, Andrew J. 17, 20Hall, Emma R. 128Hamlin, Edward 26, 54, 56, 63Hammetts Cove 41, 135Handy, Capt. Caleb 80Handy, Plummer 143Harbor Playhouse 11Harwood, Rear Admiral Andrew A. 65,

82, 134Hathaway, Charles 18Hay, John 89Herreshoff, Nathanael, boat builder 72Herreshoff, Sydney DeWolf, boat dsgnr. 32Hiller, Howard B. 49Hiller, Timothy 46Holmes, Barnabas 151Holmes, Ebenezer 26, 28, 146Houghton, Amory, U.S. Ambassador to

France 54, 56Howland, Clark P., principal 85, 102, 110–11Howland, Silas 111Hoyt, Richard F. 112, 115Hudson, Edith Waters 92Hudson, Guy 136hurricanes 34, 40, 127–28, 133, 136, 141

Great Storm of 1924 10, 88, 138Hurricane Bob 137, 141Hurricane Carol (1954) 38, 39, 56, 59,

105, 117, 131, 134–35, 137, 141Hurricane of 1815 90Hurricane of 1938 26, 33, 36, 37, 39,

131, 133–40, 147Hurricane of 1944 128

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IImprovement Fund, Trustees of the 152inns and hotels 86, 97

Allen House 88, 89Bay View Hotel 23, 46, 82Capt. Stephen Hadley House 149Dreyer Inn 23, 58Marion House hotel 76, 119Marion Inn 89Rosamond Inn 90Sippican Hotel & Casino 10, 14, 23, 25,

28–31, 43–53, 56–59, 62, 119, 146Weweantic Inn 94

JJames, Henry 46Jefferson, Joe, actor 89Jenkins, Herbert 90Johnston, Laura B. T. 132

KKeith, B.R. 23Kelley, George W. 28, 81Kennebunkport, Maine 122Kittansett Club. See clubs: Kittansett ClubKnowlton, Daniel W. 54, 56Knowlton, Hosea Morrill 116Kokerda, Charles W. 49

Llighthouses 36, 37, 139

Bird Island Light 33, 36Lillard, W. Huston, hdmstr. 107, 111, 116Lindbergh, Col. Charles A. 96, 144Little Island 34, 35, 40, 41, 56Little Neck 80, 153Liverpool, England 28Luce, Joe Snow 46Luce, Major Rowland 14Luce, William R. 19

MMacDonald, Dr. William 16, 31Marconi Wireless Station 42, 60, 86, 96, 97Marion Art Center 82Marion Library Association 101Marion, Town of

Bicentennial Week 37Board of Assessors 141Elizabeth Taber Library 101, 108–09, 123exports 9, 35, 43Fire Dept. /Central Station 153Marigold Days 30Public Library and Museum 109Town Hall 100, 102–03, 105, 108, 114Town Meeting 123Town Report 123

Marion Village 18, 22, 45, 88, 90, 122, 131Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts 35Masonic Building 22, 123Mass. Fisheries & Wildlife Commission 37Mattapoisett, Massachusetts 79–82, 100McCormick, Stanley 57Medway, Massachusetts 81Mendell, James and Mary 31Miller, Harry T. 46, 48–50Ministers Rock 79, 80moon gates 29Moore, William S. 36Music Hall 103–04, 136

NNantucket, Massachusetts 35Native Americans 61, 76, 79, 151

Sippican Indians 61, 79, 80Wampanoag 133

National Guard, Coast Artillery Unit 133Natural History Museum 101, 108–09Nelson Block 11, 13Nelson, Jimmy 11, 13

New Bedford Horticultural Society 69New Bedford, Massachusetts 35, 69, 99,

120, 123, 128, 131, 160New York City 28, 77, 89, 92, 93New York Harbor 150Nicolay, John C. 89

OOglesby & Crapo, architects 132Old Man Vale, stonemason 93

PPackard, Charles 123Petersen, Viggo C. 91Petersen, Viggo V. 70, 87, 91Philadelphia 31, 77Philadelphia Press 40Pierce, Russ 38Plant, Morton F. 72Planting Island 61Plymouth, Massachusetts 131Poett, Frederica D. 29, 38Point Rock 143postcard styles

greetings cards 155retouched 21, 41, 47, 53, 108souvenir cards 154trifold advertising postcards 48

Preston, William Gibbons 30, 85, 102Puritan settlers 79, 80Pythagorean Hall 22, 91

Rraces

annual tub races 52aquatic horse race 52yacht 32, 38, 41

Ram Island 26, 34, 56, 57, 75Reed, H.R. 28, 57Revere, Paul 81Rhodes, J.C. 28, 57Rice, Dr. A.W. 91Ripley, Charles W. 46–48Robinson, Homer 21Rochester Airport 94Rochester, Massachusetts 10, 21, 27, 43,

79, 94Roosevelt, President Franklin D. 16, 31Rossi, M.T., Superintendant 96Roy, D.F. 69Ryder, Capt. Tip 93

Ssailmakers and sail lofts 8, 9, 17, 42, 58saltworks and salt harvesting 28, 90, 92Savery, Rufus 122schools

County Road Schoolhouse 84Grammar School, The 105Honor Naval School 112North Marion Grammar School 153Red Rock School 103, 105, 113–14Sippican Academy 83South School 120

shipbuilding. See boatyards and shipyards: shipbuilding

Silva, Lou, taxi driver 87, 97Sippican Harbor 29, 32–35, 40, 42, 43, 55,

56, 63–67, 112, 143, 148Inner Harbor 34, 41, 134Upper Harbor 41, 64

Sippican Historical and Preservation Society Museum 19–21, 52, 69, 70, 72, 144–45

Sippican Hotel & Casino. See inns and hotels: Sippican Hotel & Casino

Sippican Indians. See Native AmericansSippican Seminary 18, 79, 82, 83, 99, 104Sippican Village 35, 79, 80, 84, 92, 134Snow, Edward Rowe 36

Soldiers Monument 103South Weymouth, Massachusetts 64Split Rock 147Springfield, Massachusetts 77stagecoach line 9, 95, 131, 134Stearns, Carl 18St. Gaudens, Augustus, sculptor 89Stinson, J.J. 95Stone, Galen L., and family 67, 75–77streets

Academy Lane 98–101, 107Allen Street 18, 27Converse Rd 49, 68, 123, 128–29, 147–48Cottage Street 9, 16, 22, 31, 57, 62, 65,

70, 75, 88–91, 101, 103, 105, 108, 110, 123

County Road 84, 95Delano Road 76, 77, 94, 145Dreyer Court 23Elm Street 27Front Street 9, 10, 15, 18–23, 26, 47, 56,

61, 65, 78, 80, 83–85, 89–91, 94, 99, 102–05, 110–16, 118, 122, 131, 136, 138, 145, 149–53

Harbor Lane 25, 27Hermitage Road 120, 153Hiller Street 14, 16, 20–23, 46–49, 122Holmes Street 132Lewis Street 27, 56, 57, 143Lovers Lane 151Main Street 8, 20, 23, 25, 31, 50, 58, 68,

78, 80, 82, 85, 88, 98, 102, 108, 120, 122, 132, 138, 146

Mill Street 68, 94, 140, 148, 151Nye Street 68Oakdale Avenue 80, 135Piney Point Road 131Pitcher Street 18, 147Pleasant Street 68, 82, 123, 146, 147Point Road 33–37, 39–41, 75, 84, 85,

126, 131, 133, 153Route 6 68, 94, 114, 123, 140, 148–53Route 105 94Ryders Lane 91School Street 22, 88, 89, 132South Street 9, 18, 19, 45, 46, 51, 69, 82,

83, 104, 153Spring Street 10, 22, 50, 65, 77, 84, 91,

92, 98–102, 105, 107–10, 114–15, 120, 122–23, 144, 146, 151, 153

Vine Street 30, 85Water Street 14, 17, 23–33, 39–47, 51,

54–57, 62, 65, 82, 127, 134, 143–46Weanno Street 141West Drive 148Zora Road 120

TTaber, Elizabeth Sprague 85, 98–110,

123, 152Taber, Stephen 99Tabor Academy 5, 11, 22, 26, 60, 77, 84, 85,

89, 98–102, 105–17, 120, 123, 144Academic Center 102, 105, 113, 114Alumni House 102Athletic Center 77, 112, 114Binnacle Room 113Bushnell Hall 110, 114Charles Hayden Libr. Science Bld. 113Fish Health Center 114Gilder Lodge 89, 90Hayden Building 76, 113Hoyt Gymnasium 112, 114–15Knowlton House 116Lillard Hall 60, 65, 107, 110–14, 116Long Wharf 8, 35meeting hall 111, 135Mt. Tabor, named for 99Fireman Center for the Performing

Arts 112, 114

science labs 113Seminary building 104Stone Gymnasium 114Tabor Hall 22, 105, 108–10Upper Campus 114Washburn Hall 109Washburn House 105, 109–10Zips 115

Thayer, Charles Irving 148Thayer, Marjorie 148Thomas, George C. 40trains and depots

Dude Train 121freight hauls 121Marion depots and stations 76, 96,

118–19, 121, 131New York, New Haven & Hartford 96Spring Street Station 153Tremont Station 121waiting station 98, 120

Tripp, Frank M. 21Tripp, Harrison 144Tripp, H. Edmund 144trolley line 50, 122–23, 146

Mail Railway car 122Union Street Railway 100

UUnderground Railroad 23Union Hall 99, 104U.S. Navy 72, 82, 97, 112, 116, 133U.S. Post Office 17, 20, 21, 70, 122

electric mail car 122freight office 120, 122

Vveterans of foreign wars 102

Post 2425 104Veterans Park 140

WWareham, Massachusetts 5, 10, 22, 79, 85,

95, 97, 100, 132, 135, 148Besse Park 95Onset 122Tremont 121, 135

warsCivil War 104Revolutionary War 104War of 1812 104World War I 65World War II 69, 94, 97, 133, 134

Washburn, Frederick Augustus 109Washington, D.C. 77Waters, Benjamin E., businessman 10, 92Weeks, A.G. 65, 110–11whaling. See businesses and industries:

whaling industryWharf Village 9, 12, 23, 25, 39, 49, 61, 78,

118, 127wharves and docks

Bardens dock 32Bates Wharf 9, 17, 35, 42, 55, 58, 59,

63, 65Hathaway and Delano wharves 35Island Wharf 35, 39–42, 58–61, 64, 152Long Wharf 14, 17, 39, 42, 43, 58, 59, 65Luces Wharf 35Nyes Wharf 26, 56Old Landing 35, 61, 64, 102, 140, 149–50Shermans Wharf 9, 35, 41, 42, 43, 58Town Wharf 60, 134

White, Stanford, architect 93Whiting, William S. 75, 92Wickenden, James W., headmaster 84, 117Williams, Mr. T. 27Winters, John 124Wittet, Mr., and son 8Woods, Holmes 151Wren, Christopher, architect 80

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Postcard GlossaryAs with many collectible subjects, postcards are defined by a set of special terms. One of the fore-most authorities on the hobby, Susan Brown Nicholson, author of The Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards (Radnor, PA: Wallace-Homestead, 1994), has compiled the most complete on-line postcard glossary available, easily accessed by Googling her name. For our purposes here, some key definitions will suffice to orient the general reader.

Chrome Postcard ~ A postcard published after 1939 that bears a smooth, shiny surface appearance. The name is derivative of the name of Kodachrome color printing paper.

Deltiology ~ The study of postcards. From the Greek words deltion (small pictures or cards) and logos (science or study).

Divided Back ~ Beginning in 1907 in the United States, a vertical line was printed down the backs of postcards to divide the left message area from the right address area. Similar conventions were adopted a few years earlier in Europe. This practice helps date the time of postcards’ publication. Cards published in the United States prior to 1907 have undivided backs.

Golden Age of Postcards ~ Generally agreed to be the period from 1898 to 1918, though postcards were certainly in circulation prior and continue to be popular to the present day.

Halftone/Screen-printed Postcard ~ As printing technology developed in the early 20th century, lithography was supplanted by the cheaper, faster halftone method of printing. The screens or dot patterns of halftone printing are usually visible to the naked eye.

Linen Postcard ~ During the period from the late 1920s through the 1950s, postcards were often printed on cardstock textured to represent linen fabric. Cards of this type were often heavily colorized with the intent of making them more eye-catching. Usually this effect only produced garish, unnatural-looking images.

Lithography ~ A printing process that utilizes a resist method. The image is applied to a very flat porous stone with grease and water so that only certain areas take ink. A lithographed postcard, when examined under a magnifying glass, shows only continuous tones of color, not screen or dot patterns.

Pioneer Postcard ~ Postcards published in the period from 1870 to 1898. These cards often carried instructions that only the address may be written on the back. Thus, senders often wrote their brief messages somewhere on the face of cards mailed prior to 1898. In 1898, Congress authorized private printers to publish postcards eligible for mailing with a one-cent stamp, and the national postcard craze began.

Real-Photo Postcard ~ Among deltiologists, real-photo postcards are the most highly sought after. These postcards are in fact actual photographs printed directly from negatives on photographic paper that has been preprinted on the back. Usually, they were published by local postcard publishers in relatively small editions. Some examples may be one of a kind.

Topics/Topical Postcard ~ This class of postcard comprises everything from tall tales to humorous and risqué cards, as well as the productions of a number of postcard artists who specialized in this medium. The last pages of this book feature some topical cards, often overprinted with specific town names, like Marion, MA.

View Postcard ~ The majority of the postcards in this book fall into this category. View cards depict cities, towns, buildings, street scenes, and the like. Transportation subjects—such as ships and trains—also come under this heading.

White Border Postcard ~ This convention was used primarily from 1915 to 1930.

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