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At the turn of the twentieth century, the painter Horatio Walker erected a stone wall above the shore to protect his land from strong tides and to keep away the many swimmers who frequented the beach of the North. In 1935, a cottage stood close to here, and vertical planks protected the building from the onslaught of the river because not everyone could afford a stone wall.
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