Keywords: sail loft
Item 27828
Dunn & Elliot Sail Loft, Thomaston, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 96826
Boothbay Harbor's west side cold storage building, winter 1918
Contributed by: Boothbay Region Historical Society Date: 1918 Location: Boothbay Harbor Media: Photographic print
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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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Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Carr O'Brien Block
"… has served as a bank, commercial shops, sail loft, boot and shoe factory, clothing factory, and now houses the Prison Showroom, a retail outlet for…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900
"The sail loft they built in 1875 still stands in its original location on Water Street at the foot of Green Street."
