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SALISBURY HISTORYLOTTIE COLLINSLottie Collins was born in Salisbury on February 18,1871. Her parents were Jacob and (Florence or Ellen)Pierce Collins. She married a Boston man named LymanWaterman. They had no children.She was an actress and singer during the gay nineties,and became famous for her song Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Shetraveled to such places as New York, London, and Paris.She was ill for many years, and died in Salisbury at theage of 35, in June, 1906. She is buried at the Long HillCemetery on Beach Road. The lot is known as the Jacob B.Collins lot.THE LEGEND OF BURIED GOLDSometime before the war of 1812, one Nathaniel EbenezerPike (no relation to the Salisbury Pikes) had a hermitagenear where the Beach Road comes on to the beach.It was said that he owned a sloop which he used to go outto meet incoming vessels. Pike would then take some of theship’s cargo of goods aboard his own sloop. This enabled thevisiting ship to evade Newburyport Customs. Pike wouldthen sail off toward Hampton River to his home by way ofHealey’s canal. During the night, the owner of the goodswould come for them and pay Pike for his service. It wassaid Pike died a rich man, but none of his fortune was found.During the building of the Plank Road in 1866, a workman,so it is told, in digging for the construction, pulled up alarge amount of gold and silver coins. Being unobserved, he196