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25 Years as Clerk for Dunbar
After 25 years of working as town clerk, Lynn Dunbar praises
“the people of Sullivan” as the single best aspect of her job.
But if you were to ask her how she even came to be town clerk,
she would laugh.
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Business |
Dunbar’s Grocery Has That Family Feeling
For more than 110 years, Dunbar’s
Grocery Store along Route 1 has served as a convenience store
and town center.
As the only mid-sized grocery store between
Ellsworth and Winter
Harbor,
it’s where Sullivan residents and others Downeast stop in daily
to buy goods.
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Memories |
Now It’s Greeley Hall
It was only
fitting, last August, that the town gave a proper name to the
hall at the Sullivan-Sorrento Recreation Center, which was built
and last dedicated in 1958. Now, the building that houses the
library, an adult education center, and a larger hall for Beano
and big dinners, has a name for that upstairs hall: Greeley
Hall.
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Neighbors |
A History of Shipbuilding and Granite
Sullivan was the second plantation, east of the Union River,
laid out in 1762, after Trenton. Settlement began circa 1763,
with John Bean (Bane) and Daniel Sullivan at Doane’s Point on
Waukeag Neck.
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photographed by
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THE
FACTS
Acreage: 17,928
Population, 2000:
1,185
Population, 1990:
1,118
Population, 19 years and younger:
319
Median age: 38.4
Schools:
Mountain View School; Sumner Memorial High School; Adult
Learning Center
Library:
Frenchman Bay Public Library
Churches:
Baptist 1, Community 1
Town meeting:
Last Monday in June
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They
Said It |
“The town keeps growing. I just hope that I can keep
up with it.”
—Lynn Dunbar
Town Clerk
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Milestones |
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The early years
1763: Settlement of
the area starts with John Bean and Daniel Sullivan.
1789: Town incorporates.
1734: Customs Office removes to Ellsworth.
1860-64: Old Stone Store is built from Sullivan granite.
1874: Last vessel is built at Sullivan, the Hattie E. White.
1876: Waukeag House is built at Sullivan Harbor.
1926: Hancock-Sullivan Bridge opens.
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