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Item 14546
Title: Fragment of a hand-made canvas sail, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1930
Location: Camden
Media: Canvas
Item 8856
Title: Sailing vessel OLYMPIC, Bath, 1892
Contributed by: Maine Maritime Museum
Date: 1892
Location: Bath
Media: black and white photograph
Item 17615
Title: Sailboats in Boothbay Harbor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Stanley Museum
Date: circa 1905
Location: BoothBay Harbor
Media: Black & White Photograph
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Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.
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In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.