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Jenks's Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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A traveler reports rapid prosperity in Maine's District, evidenced by Vassalborough building 11 school-houses this year and other towns' attention to education, plus discovery of valuable lime-stone along the SebastCook by Daniel Spring of Winslow, reducing lime costs from $3 per cask.
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A traveller who has lately returned from an excursion into the Kennebec country, gives us the pleasing intelligence, that no part of New-England seems to be more rapidly rising into importance than the District of Maine.
As one evidence of prosperity and a laudable zeal to promote the dissemination of knowledge in that part of the world, the town of Vassalborough, whose extent is only about 6 miles, by 5; in the course of the present year has erected Eleven neat and convenient School-Houses. Other towns appear to have been considerably attentive to the same object.
In the course of the summer past, a very extensive ledge of rocks, lying on both sides of the SebastCook, has been found by actual experiment to be a body of genuine Lime-Stone. This is a valuable discovery to people in that quarter as the lime which they have heretofore used has been brought from such a distance as to have been sold for three dollars a cask. Mr. Daniel Spring of Winslow, is the first and only person who has yet made trial of this Lime stone, and he finds it to be of excellent quality.
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District Of Maine
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Present Year
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lime previously sold for three dollars a cask; new source of excellent quality lime-stone discovered.
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Traveler reports rapid rise in importance of District of Maine; Vassalborough erected eleven school-houses this year; other towns attentive to education; extensive lime-stone ledge found on both sides of SebastCook in summer past, tested by Mr. Daniel Spring of Winslow.