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and received $100 as a gift. The present summer estate 
at Pride’s of Congressman Nicholas Longworth’s mo- 
ther is part of that same Thissell farm. 
The Isaac Prince farm (now Paine Place, Pride’s) 
was a 100 acre farm. Charles T. Paine of Boston pur- 
vhased it. He paid $6000 for it. Mr. Prince was so 
fearful he had over-charged him, he gave him a pair 
ot cattle as a bonus. Since 1844 to 1888 estates 
amounting to $200,000 were sold from the confines of 
this farm. From thereon to the present time, prices for 
which estates have been sold in this particular section 
of Beverly have been princely in their magnitude. 
Contemporary with Mr. Paine was C. G. Loring of 
Boston, who bought the Benjamin Smith farm near the 
Henry Clay Frick estate. Mr. Loring built the first 
summer residence in Beverly. P. T. Jackson and Frank- 
lin Dexter, other Bostonians, also acquired property 
about this time at Pride’s. Augustus Lowell, father 
of the President of Harvard University, built the sum- 
mer home at Pride’s now owned by Mrs. G. Howland 
Shaw of Boston on Hale street, Pride’s. 
-In 1846 Franklin Haven, David A. Neal, President 
of the old Eastern R. R.; Col. Henry Lee and Samuel 
Cabot, all of Boston, secured land at Beverly Farms. 
Samuel Cabot built the first house on West Beach, 
Beverly Farms, the popular bathing and recreation 
beach with its splendid up-to-date bathing pavilion. 
The fine estate of Sidney E. Hutchinson of Philadelphia, 
bordering on the beach, was originally owned by Jon- 
athan Preston. What is known now as the Pump cot- 
tage, Beverly Farms, the property of John F. Wilkins 
of Washington, was once the site of a grocery store 
owned by James S. Peary and one of the landmarks of 
primitive Beverly Farms. The Andrew Larcom place 
at the Farms was purchased by Gordon Dexter of Bos- 
ton, who has developed it into his present fine estate. 
Wm. D. Pickman of Boston was among the first 
Bestonians to settle at Hospital Poimt, Beverly. <A 
little later Col. Wm. D. Sohier, father of the present 
Col. Sohier, Benjamin Burgess and the Lawrence fam- 
ily chose sites at Burgess and Hospital Points. The 
cottage at Hospital Point now owned by Alexander 
Steinert of Boston was built by the late Henry W. 
Peabody. The late Arthur Rotch, one of Boston’s 
leading architects, purchased it and later it was sold to 
Mr. Steinert. The late Senator Don Cameron of Penn- 
sylvania occupied it one season. 
Therefore the North Shore owes much to these 
many old and representative Boston families, who 
helped to bring about the formative period of Beverly’s 
resort business. Not only did her scenic beauties appeal 
to them, but many of their distinguished ancestors 
were Beverly colonists. By settling in the midst of 
ancestral traditions there was added interest and charm 
in their surroundings. Always keen at investments 
good financial results were also realized from their 
holdings. Their choice of Beverly therefore became a 
criterion. 
The personnel of Beverly’s summer colonists has 
become national, so that the modern Beverly, like her 
sister resorts on the North Shore, has welcomed tour- 
ists from nearly every part of the country and from 
ibroad. With their abundant wealth, and distinction, 
the colonial farms and the fishing stages were swept 
into the dim and distant past. 
The first ‘‘summer boarder’’ came rumbling along 
TERRACE ON OCEAN FRONT—“EAGLE ROCK” 
