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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"Early fishing schooner, ca. 1870Swan's Island Historical Society With the best timber harvested, men turned to the sea for their livelihood rather…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"Sometimes as many as 10 three-masted schooners were lined up, waiting for stone. Stone from the island was used in buildings all over the country."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Thomas The Washington B. Thomas was a five-masted schooner of a type called a fore-and-after. A fore-and-after schooner was extremely economical…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Champlain voyaged along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… industry has remained healthy along the Maine coast from Kittery north including Downeast Maine."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… War (1860-1864) marked an end to the age of East coast shipping and reliance on forest products. The nation turned to coal, iron, and oil."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Harbor Cottage, The Old Ell (“Mame’s House”), and the Big Barn

"… his father John II, made his living coasting as a schooner captain, logging Savage family land, loading his schooners with lumber and trading in…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Movies Come To The Island

"… Dutch cinematographer, slipped and fell from a cliff to his death at Schooner Head. His body was washed out to sea. Sources and Works Cited..."

Lubec, Maine - Lubec History

"Among them were the Lizzie B. McNichol, Minnie Hunter, Annie Gillise and the Nellie Dinsmore. Photo by Frank P. Adams. X Schooner Charles E."

Blue Hill, Maine - Shipbuilding: An Important Early Industry

"… 100 vessels were built in Blue Hill, from 100-ton schooners to a 498-ton ship. One of the largest Blue Hill vessels, the Ocean Ranger, was built in…"

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"Schooners brought supplies to islanders, who shipped surplus produce such as potatoes back to Boston on the same vessels."

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"Indeed, the building of schooners carried Bath through the nationwide depression and into relative prosperity in the 1880s and 1890s."