Keywords: Morse boatbuilding
Item 27160
Georges River toward former tollbridge, Thomaston, 1946
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Thomaston Media: Postcard
Item 27833
Grace M. Cribby, Thomaston, 1914
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1914 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today
"A continuance of the former Charles A. Morse Boatbuilding Co. established in 1912, Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Co."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950
"Morse of Friendship, established Morse Boatbuilding Co. in 1912, one of the longest operating boatbuilding businesses in Thomaston."
