Keywords: Dutch Elm Disease in Thomaston
Item 27173
John Hewett and Judge, Main Street, Thomaston, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Expands - 1805 to 1846
"… later, many of these trees had succumbed to Dutch elm disease, a blight that nearly decimated every tree of this species throughout the northeast."
