Keywords: Shipbuilding in Thomaston
Item 27832
View from Brooklyn Heights, Thomaston, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 27830
Schooner Ella M. Willey, Thomaston, 1891
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1891 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
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Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding
"In 1630, long before vessels were actually being built in Thomaston, English ships were navigating the George's River to reach the dense inland…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Shipbuilders - 1780s
"Several more ships were built by individuals in South Thomaston and Rockland, which were then part of Thomaston."
