Pemaquid Peninsula: A Midcoast Maine History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781540202475)

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 summer hotel on the grounds where his grandfather had salted and dried his catch decades earlier. Today, summer rusticators discover the enduring natural beauty at the heart of the Pemaquid Peninsula. Journey to the past with Pemaquid native and historian Josh Hanna as he discovers these timeless shores.


Author: Josh Hanna
ISBN-10: 154020247X
ISBN-13: 9781540202475
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 07/13/2015
Pages: 242
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d