Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Sources

"… New York: Putnam, 1900 Callahan, North Henry Knox : General Washington's General New York : Rinehart, 1958 Drake, Francis Samuel Life and…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"… Henry Knox Museum Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Museum www.knoxmuseum.org X General Henry Knox Museum PO Box 326 Thomaston, ME 04861…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox

"Henry Knox's Wastebook, ca. 1804The General Henry Knox Museum Daily, Knox kept rough entries of his various business dealings in wastebooks, ledgers…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping

"… of the Quick Lime in his wastebook The General Henry Knox Museum According to Eaton, the Quick Lime’s master was Edward Kelleran, who turned the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Funeral

"The General Henry Knox Museum Major General Henry Knox died on the 25th of October, 1806, after 56 years of life and 11 years in Thomaston."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… describing sales of brick to BostonThe General Henry Knox Museum According to one entry on September 7, 1805, Knox sent on board three different…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Land Dealings

"Map of the Waldo Patent, 1786The General Henry Knox Museum One of Knox’s businesses was land speculation."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… The Old Church on the Hill, ThomastonThe General Henry Knox Museum According to Eaton, the Old Church on the Hill, as it came to be known, was…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works

"Henry Knox: Lime Works Limestone quarry, Thomaston, ca. 1880 One hundred years after Henry Knox's involvement, lime quarrying was still an…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"One of the houses he built was for Henry Jackson Knox, the General’s son, in 1794. In the 1820s, this house on Pine Street was lived in by Brown…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Montpelier

"Montpelier Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Mansion, Route 131, Thomaston, Maine 2008Thomaston Historical Society In striking contrast to…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - About Us

"The Knox Museum is producing an exhibit on Major General Henry Knox’s many business and civic ventures in Thomaston."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Home

"… DISCOVER the life and times of Major General Henry Knox EXPERIENCE the dark history of the Maine State Prison IMAGINE the hey-day of Thomaston's…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early 1800s

"Early 1800s Henry Knox monument, Thomaston, ca. 1871Thomaston Historical Society After General Knox’s death in 1806, merchants and traders…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents

"… second husband of Caroline Knox Swan (daughter of General Knox) and eminent lawyer and statesman, left politics in 1833 and returned to the…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston is Incorporated - 1777

"Montpelier Home of General Henry KnoxThe General Henry Knox Museum With the arrival of General Knox and his numerous industrious activities, several…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architecture

"… Maine Historical Society, Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, and Thomaston Historical Society The Ranlett House, Thomaston, ca."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870

"Montpelier, Thomaston, 1870 The General Henry Knox Museum By this time, the mansion was in ruins, lived in by squatters, and considered too great an…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Historical Society

"Our building, the General Henry Knox Farmhouse, opens at 7:00 p.m. on meeting days for a social hour prior to the meeting."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"General Henry Knox built coasters as early as 1796, according to Eaton, but no records of vessels attributed to him appear until the 110-ton schooner…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Maine State Prison

"… of land in Thomaston, formerly owned by General Henry Knox. This property included Limestone Hill and its nearly 100-year-old lime quarry, a wharf…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"… Historical Society, and Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Museum Town from River, Thomaston, Maine 2002Thomaston Historical Society…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Industry Expands - 1850 to 1857

"… shipbuilding business at Fort Wharf on lower Knox Street. Chapman and Flint laid out a new yard on the Narrows (a narrowing of the river northwest…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Humphrey House

"… another builder brought to Thomaston by General Knox. He built the impressive Monk Humphrey House on Wadsworth Street, a grand three-storey Federal…"