The Junkins Garrison House
Produced by Ken Junkins - Junkins Family Associeation
The Junkins Garrison House has long captured artist's imagination. For many years the building stood
stoutly atop a hill, overlooking South Berwick Road and the salt marshes of the York River. As the
building aged and deteriorated, it was captured by artists in varying stages of decay. Recent artists
have envisioned it in its original state and have breathed new life into the memory of this house. Now
only an empty and overgrown cellar hole, the garrison has a sister house less than a quarter of a mile
down the road, the McIntyre garrison.
In 1875 NE artist Susan Minot Lane painted a fanciful
garrison house occupied, with smoke gently wafting
from the chimney. This quaint view shows the house
without the 'L' addition as it was known to exist as
early
A reprinting 2006 by
Kessinger Publishing, 2006
(ISBN 1428618694, 9781428618695)
showed this half-tone with the same caption.
The text reads:
The alarm of the Philip's war in 1675,
extending to the east-ward, the distressed
inhabitants built garrison houses against
Indian attack. Two, known as the Junkins
garrison and the McIntyre garison, were
standing on a hiltop in Scotland parish of
Old York as late as 1875. of the former not
a ves-tige now remains, except a panel
that forms a cupboard door in Frary house.
In 1875 NE artist Susan Minot Lane painted a fanciful
garrison house occupied, with smoke gently wafting
from the chimney. This quaint view shows the house
without the 'L' addition as it was known to exist as
early as 1830.
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Subsequently, illustrations after her painting were
included in school texts written and published by her
life partner, Charlotte Alice Baker.
From the 1897 school textbook
True Stories of New England Captives
Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars
by By Charlotte Alice Baker
Published by Press of E.A. Hall & Co., 1897
The caption reads:
THE JUNKINS GARRISON HOUSE
BUILT IN 1675
From a painting by Susan Minot Lane, 1875
