Contributed by Wagner-Higgins Family through Westport Island History Committee
Description
Grace Doggett picked mussels with two of her children, Dorothy and Samuel "Dayton" Doggett. Grace and her husband, Samuel Bradlee Doggett (1858-1938), bought land on Westport in 1911 for a summer cottage.
Mrs. Doggett's rowboat was pulled up near "Doggett's Castle," a 100-foot high bluff along the Sheepscot River on the east side of Westport Island. The name "Doggett's Castle" stems from colonial history when a distant ancestor of her husband, Capt. Samuel Doggett, traded with the Indians in this location because it was a protected location that could be approached only by water.
About This Item
- Title: Picking mussels, Westport Island, ca. 1912
- Creation Date: circa 1912
- Subject Date: circa 1912
- Location: Westport Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 13 cm x 18.25 cm
- Local Code: WH.Photo.1.circa1912
- Object Type: Image
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- Boats--Maine--Westport Island
- Harvesting--Maine--Westport Island
- Rowboats--Maine--Westport Island
- Shellfish--Maine
- Westport Island (Me.)
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Westport Island History Committee6 Fowles Point Road, Westport Island, ME 04578
(207) 882-8477
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