Category: Maritime, Ships & Boats, Merchant ships
Item 10629
Schooner Savannah and her captain William H. Gould, 1902
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1902 Media: Photographic print
Item 10718
Flag from the ship Excelsior, 1845
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1985 Location: Kennebunk Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
Exhibit
The Doris Hamlin, a four-masted schooner built at the Frye-Flynn Shipyard in Harrington, was one of the last vessels launched there, marking the decline of a once vigorous shipbuilding industry in Washington County.
