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Category Archives: Dunstan
They Answered the Call – Part 2
Part 2 of 2 by Mary Pickard Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Maine Historical Society, and Maine State Archives Letters to and from soldiers revealed concerns about the future. In a letter to her friend Gardner Waterhouse with the 7th … Continue reading
Posted in Dunstan, They Answered the Call
Tagged Augustus Freedom Moulton, Augustus Moulton, Benjamin Waterhouse, Charles C. G. Thoraton, Charles Gustin, Clara Moses, Enoch Snow, Freedom Milliken, Gardner Waterhouse, George E. Merrill, Henry Farr, Hiram Berry, Horatio Hight, John Young, Mahlon Parker, Martin Perry, Melville Milliken, Robert Waterhouse, Sumner Commings Libby, Thomas Libby, Zabulon Knight
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Southgate, Dr. Robert
People Who Called Scarborough Home By Charlene Fenlason Dr. Robert Southgate – Doctor, Lawyer, Judge Robert Southgate: doctor, lawyer, judge, gentleman farmer, and businessman. According to family tradition, in 1771 Dr. Robert Southgate rode into Dunstan on horseback with all … Continue reading
Posted in Dunstan, Oak Hill, People, People who Call Scarborough Home
Tagged Marsh Hay, Mary King, Seth Scamman, Turnpike
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Uphannum – “Indian Jane”
People Who Called Scarborough Home By Charlene Fenlason Indian Jane – Jane Hannup Uphannum was the daughter of Wackwarreska, Sagamore of Owascoag, and his wife Nagasqua. To early settlers she was familiarly known as Indian Jane, Jane the Indian or … Continue reading
Posted in Blue Point, Dunstan, People, People who Call Scarborough Home
Tagged Andrew Alger, Arthur Alger, Indian Jane, Jane Hannup
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King, Richard – Dunstan Settler
People Who Called Scarborough Home By Charlene Fenlason Richard King Richard King, born in 1718 in Boston, settled in the Dunstan Landing area of Scarborough in 1746 after selling property in Watertown, Massachusetts where he’d had a successful timber exporting … Continue reading
Posted in Dunstan, People, People who Call Scarborough Home
Tagged Isabella Bragdon, Mary Black, Richard King
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Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks – Part 1 of 2
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Don Googins Scarborough has always been a place where going to sea and fishing are a part of life. At one time ships, boats, and smaller watercraft were … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Dunstan, Pine Point, Ships, Transportation
Tagged Aaron A. Merrill, Abraham Perkins, Cecil Pinkham, Dunstan Landing, Harold Burnham, Ira Milliken, John Waterhouse, Libby River, New River, Nonesuch River, Scarborough River, Ward Bickford
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Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society and Charlene Fenlason The first “roads” were not really roads but Indian footpaths through the woods. Generally, the trails followed firm ground rather than a direct course, avoiding swamps and hills … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Dunstan, Higgins Beach, Oak Hill, Pine Point, Pleasant Hill, Scottow's Hill & Payne
Tagged Ambrose Boaden, Benjamin Franklin, Chamberlain Road, Cyrus King, Dr. Southgate, Ferry Beach, Holmes Road, Josiah Paine, King’s Highway, Nehemiah Libby, Payne Road, Post Road, Spurwink River, Vinegar Road, William King
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Transportation Through the Years – Part 2 of 4
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Joseph W. Sno Trolleys: The Electrics Come to Town As trains transported people and freight to Portland, Boston and beyond, the trolleys provided easy mobility within the Greater … Continue reading
Transportation Through the Years – Part 1 of 4
Text by Bruce Thurlow Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton and Joseph W. Snow See a Red Sox game in Boston—easy, hop in your car, drive to Boston via high-speed roads, see the game, and return home the same … Continue reading
Historical Overview – Part 2
(Page 2 of 4) Text by Mary B. Pickard Conflict/Abandonment/Resettlement (1675-1702) The first Indian attack occurred September 1675 in the upper part of Blue Point at the home of Robert Nichols and his wife. The Nichols were murdered and their … Continue reading
Historical Overview – Part 1
Scarborough: They Called it Owascoag Part 1 of 4 – Print Version Here (Pages 1-4) Text by Mary B. Pickard Images from Scarborough Historical Society, Rodney Laughton, the Scarborough Marsh Nature Center and Broadturn Farm Unlike many neighboring towns, Scarborough … Continue reading
Posted in Black Point, Blue Point, Dunstan, History, Oak Hill, Pine Point, Prout's Neck, Stratton's Island
Tagged Andrew Alger, Arthur Alger, Cammock Patent, Henry Jocelyn, Henry Watts, John Stratton, Owascoag, Richard Bonython, Richard Foxwell, salt marsh, Sokokis, Thomas Cammock, Thomas Lewis, Uphannum, Wackwarreska
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