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Description
The schooner M.M. Hamilton was a three-ton sloop built by Sylvester Stover at Stover's Cove, Harpswell, in 1869.
It was named for Mercy Melissa Henley Hamilton, wife of John Hamilton, who had the ship built.
It carried much of the granite from Maine quarries for the Washington Monument, the Chicago Auditorium and the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
About This Item
- Title: Schooner M.M. Hamilton, 1926
- Creation Date: circa 1925
- Subject Date: circa 1925
- Location: ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 8.3 cm x 10.8 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 1949, 2005.061.14003
- Collection: Portland Press Herald glass negative collection
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Cargo ships
- Granite industry--Maine
- Hamilton, Mercy Melissa Henley--Commemoration
- M.M. Hamilton (Ship)
- Sailing ships
- Schooners--Maine
- Ships--Maine
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