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Brewer (Paperback)
Richard R Shaw
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R550
R442
Discovery Miles 4 420
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Seven miles of beautiful waterfront and a colorful legacy of famous
residents and venerable industry have made Brewer a treasured and
prosperous city for more than two hundred years. Since its founding
in 1771 along the lower Penobscot River, Brewer has flourished in
business and architecture, and yet has retained its scenic
landscape. Brewer is a unique look at the development of this city.
A wide range of photographs spanning a century and a half bring to
life its vibrant history. Figures such as Gov. Joshua Lawrence
Chamberlain, who was also an important Civil War general, and Col.
John Brewer, the early settler for whom the city is named, are
among the residents highlighted. One image showcases the family
home of Deacon John Holyoke, which some believe was a station on
the Underground Railroad. Ice harvesting along the Penobscot River,
brick making, and ship launchings are pictured, including the tiny
3-cent Bon Ton ferries that linked Brewer to Bangor before a second
bridge was built. Fourth of July celebrations, soapbox derby races,
and events like the devastating flood of 1902 are all captured in
this enviable history.
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Bangor (Paperback)
Richard R Shaw
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R556
R420
Discovery Miles 4 200
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Bangor is a city that has grown in many ways since Jacob Buswell
and his family, the first white settlers, built their log cabin by
the Penobscot River in 1769. Over the course of the nineteenth
century, Bangor developed into a cosmopolitan center of Maine, but
to this day it retains some of the proud characteristics of a town
that was once the lumbering capital of the world. Collected in this
fascinating visual history are over 200 photographs that together
reflect the cityAa's rich and diverse history. The photographs show
more than a century of change, with stirring images of four-masted
schooners in the harbor, of log drives, of floods, and of fires.
People fill the book: Amelia Earhart and Presidents Roosevelt,
Eisenhower, Nixon, and Kennedy pictured on visit; the Brady Gang,
shot by the FBI in 1937 as the nationAa's most wanted criminals;
and especially the hardworking men and women who built Bangor into
the Aa"Queen City of the East.Aa"
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Bangor (Hardcover)
Richard R Shaw
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R1,065
R854
Discovery Miles 8 540
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Brewer (Hardcover)
Richard R Shaw
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R1,031
R827
Discovery Miles 8 270
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