Contributed by Westport Island History Committee
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Description
"Hospital Island" or Upper Mark Island, as it is known in 2021, is an inhospitable one-acre island off Kehail Point which is territorially part of Westport Island.
Historian Fannie Chase, author of "Wiscasset in Pownalborough" published in 1941, referred to it as a "quarantine ground at the mouth of the Sheepscot for cholera," referencing Edgecomb town records.
Westport Island town ledgers indicate the island was also used as a quarantine station in the 1840s for smallpox. One such ledger entry on March 9, 1840 ordered payment "in favour of Wm. Greenleaf for twelve dollars --- it being for lumber furnished for a hospital house erected on Mark Island so called."
About This Item
- Title: Hospital Island, Westport Island, ca. 1908
- Creation Date: circa 1908
- Subject Date: circa 1908
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Locations:
- Westport Island, Lincoln County, ME
- Edgecomb, Lincoln County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 9.2 cm x 11.8 cm
- Collection: D Crawford Collection
- Object Type: Image
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Westport Island History Committee6 Fowles Point Road, Westport Island, ME 04578
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