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Keywords: Down Easters
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Item 26297
Title: Baring Brothers Launch, Thomaston 1877
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society
Date: 1877
Location: Thomaston
Media: Photograph
Item 27830
Title: Schooner Ella M. Willey, Thomaston, 1891
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society
Date: circa 1891
Location: Thomaston
Media: Black and White Photograph
Item 79937
Title: Rumford Point Ferry, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Location: Rumford
Media: photograph
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Canoes, Schooners and the Down-Easter
Maine has a long history of boat and ship-building, spurred by the timber resources and the many sheltered ports along the coast. Shipping and trade were especially important in Maine in the 19th century.