Keywords: Thomaston boatbuilder
Item 27833
Grace M. Cribby, Thomaston, 1914
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1914 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 27830
Schooner Ella M. Willey, Thomaston, 1891
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1891 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."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Today
"established in 1912, Lyman Morse Boatbuilding Co. is well known in the custom-boatbuilding world, and continues to produce a line of high-end boats…"
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950
"in 1912, one of the longest operating boatbuilding businesses in Thomaston. Prior to the 1980s, the firm had worked on close to 300 vessels."
