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Description
Around 1787 Captain Thomas Vose, came to Thomaston from Milton, Massachusetts, to fence the Fort farm for General Henry Knox. Up until 1810, when he died, he carried on a successful trade in the store later used by O’Brien and Burgess at the foot of Wadsworth Street.
In 1864, the building was purchased by Dunn and Elliot for a ship's chandlery and general store. They continued doing business through 1970 as a fuel and appliance firm. The building no longer stands.
About This Item
- Title: Dunn & Elliot Company Store, Thomaston, ca. 1930
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Thomaston, Knox County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 15 cm x 24 cm
- Local Code: BusinessPhotographBox 01.17
- Object Type: Image
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- Ship chandlers--Maine--Thomaston
- Business enterprises--Maine--Thomaston
- Stores & shops--Maine--Thomaston
- Ships--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Thomaston
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- 18th century building
- architecture
- Dunn & Elliot Store
- Dunn and Elliot
- Fort farm
- fuel and appliance firm
- O'Brien and Burgess
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- ship chandlery
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- Thomaston business
- trade
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Thomaston Historical SocietyPO Box 384, Thomaston, ME 04861
(207) 354 2295
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