NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AND REMINDER 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, AGoust 1, 1913 : 
Vol. XI 
Marblehead—the Great Yachting Centre 
Some of Its Historical and Traditional Attractions 
By MARY HERROD NORTHEND 
| as HISTORIC and picturesque interest there is no 
place in New England that equals Marblehead. It 
is one of the most interesting and unique peninsulas in the 
United States. Marblehead was settled in 1629 by citizens 
fiom the island of Guernsey which accounts for many 
of the idiomatic peculiarities which for more than two 
centuries characterized the speech of that assembly. These 
oddities of expression are rapidly passing away with the 
settlement of the town and its adjoining peninsula by sum- 
iner folks. 
Reverend Francis Higginson in 1629 speaks of this 
rocky headlands as ‘Marble stone, that we have great 
rocks of it and a harbor hard by. Our plantation is from 
thence called Marble Harbor.” While this name was ap- 
plied to it by niany in the early days, yet 1t was known as 
wharblehead and so important a place has it been in his- 
iory, being settled by one of the bravest people in Amer- 
ica, that the legend iuus “so well is 1t known not only in 
out own land but in foreign countries as well that any 
person hailing from Marblehead never thinks of attaching 
U. S. A. to its name, feeling sure that Marblehead is 
enough.” 
Lhe streets which are laid out irregularly are most 
interesting, and the buildings, built without any thought 
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“QUESTEN MERE,” THE SUMMER HOME OF MR. AND MRS. FREDERICK MCQUESTEN, AT MARBLEHEAD NECK 
