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Description
Alexander W. Longfellow (1814-1901) of Portland surveyed a small harbor off Cape Elizabeth in 1850 to support a planned engineering project to construct a granite breakwater to improve the anchorage in the harbor, a safe haven for vessels in bad weather.
The breakwater was not constructed until 1873.
About This Item
- Title: Richmond Island Harbor, 1851
- Creator: Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow
- Creation Date: 1851
- Subject Date: 1851
- Location: Richmonds Island, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper, map
- Local Code: Map F 227
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Cape Elizabeth (Me.)--Maps
- Cartographers--Maine
- Longfellow, A.W. (Alexander Wadsworth), 1814-1901
- Richmond Island Harbor (Me.)--Maps
- Surveyors--Maine
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