Keywords: prominent Thomaston family
Item 27830
Schooner Ella M. Willey, Thomaston, 1891
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1891 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 27794
The Honorable John Ruggles, Thomaston, 1859
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: 1859 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
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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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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 - Henry Knox: Land Dealings
"… wealthy businessman William Duer, and later the prominent Philadelphian William Bingham, purchased vast tracts of land in the Maine wilderness and…"
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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