The Settlers House
Property Description :
Sitting right off the exit road from the park. The settlers house is the oldest remaining home on schoodic peninsula. The cape cod portion of the home is the oldest section. This style with its sturdy post and beam construction was very popular with the early settlers. During a more recent renovation just decade ago in which i added the dormer windows i found that the roof is actually put together with wooden pegs instead of nails. I also found fragments of newspapers used for insulation prior to the civil war. One piece had an ad for rewards for escaped runaway slaves. A date on another of the fragments was thursday, march 21, 1839. No one really knows when it was built but, the year 1765 is carved into one of the timbers under the living room walls. The settlers house has been added too and renovated probably dozens of times but its simple beauty, charm and colonial aura remains and is inescapable. And it's still quite easy to imagine what it must have been like to live here a couple hundred years ago. the home sits between the fishing villages of prospect harbor and winter harbor. It's about a 2 mile walk to either town unless you walk 100 feet to the old stone fence in the back yard which is the winter harbor town line. It's also four or five miles to the fishing villages of corea or south gouldsboro. In the immediate area there are 4 restaurants, a few takeouts, an old fashioned 5&10, 2 grocery stores, craft, art & antique shops, a few piers and and allot more. There's a nine hole golf course on grindstone neck that overlooks winter harbor on one side and frenchmans bay on the other. If you enjoy the ocean take a sailboat cruise, lobster boat trip, kayak the bays and meander through the coves. Ride out and see the seals basking on the rocks on the other side of turtle island, the osprey nesting near the halibut hole, the lighthouse on mark island or the eagles at the town pier in winter harbor. schoodic peninsula has one of the most beautiful rocky stretches of coastline in the whole state or for that matter the country. We've had many artists vacation with us over the years and one thing they all keep repeating is that "the area is an artists dream come true". If you are willing to walk or drive a mile or two in any direction you will see many beautiful vistas.
Pets :
Yes
Garden :
No
Pool :
No