Pemaquid Peninsula:: A Midcoast Maine History

by Josh Hanna

Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove local commerce until enterprising locals turned to ice harvesting, granite quarrying, brick making, lobster canning and pogy oil processing before summer tourism grew and thrived. The descendants of revolutionaries became the faces of a more prosperous generation--men like Albert Thorpe, who ran a popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1467118079
• ISBN13: 9781467118071
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.8"