late John Trider about the same time built his rough stone house at
Freshwater Bridge. The late John Tremain had a Ropewalk adjoining his
residence on the south side of the road leading up from Freshwater
Bridge, now known as Inglis Street. This property was afterwards
purchased by James Forman, Junior, and the old ropewalk building
removed. The residence of Major Bazelgette at the head of this street
had been originally constructed by John Trider from the materials of the
old Government House which had been removed and the materials sold to
make way for the foundation of the Province Building. It afterwards
became the property of the late John Moody, a merchant in the town, who
sold it to Major Bazelgette about the year 1817 or 1818, who added to
the building and improved the grounds. Mr. Moody purchased the adjoining
grounds and erected a new house; after his failure his residence was
purchased by Hon. Enos Collins, who improved the property and beautified
the surrounding grounds.
Old Fresh Water Bridge, so well known in former times, crossed the
stream from Smith's Tanyard nearly in the same place as the present
abutment. It was a rickety old wooden structure with a rough curb or
rail. It was a favorite resort of the young of both sexes on Sundays and
summer evenings, and the old wooden rail was covered with names and
initial letters carved with the pen knife by visitors. The walk down
Pleasant Street and up the road now known as Inglis Street and round the
new road, as the Tower Road was then called to Pyke's Bridge, and thence
down Spring Garden Road to Government House, was the fashionable
promenade for all classes on Sundays and holidays. The old English
Burial ground was then surrounded by a high, rough stone wall, built
without mortar, which was removed some years after the new cemetery on
Camp Hill was consecrated. The Governor's garden up Spring Garden Road
adjoining the burial ground extended as far as the General's quarters. A
portion of this field was taken for the site of the new Court House and
County Jail. The new Poor House in the opposite space, then lately
erected, was a rough stone building whitewashed on the outside, but the
Work House or House of Correction was the old gamble roof building
probably originally erected as a soldiers' barracks in the days of the
forts, and afterwards used as a Poor House. All these buildings have
been since removed and the ground sold to private speculators, a step
much to be regretted, as the space was very extensive and the most
eligible situation for a public building in the whole city.
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