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| Today |
Residents Work Issues Through
Today They’re Busy Making Plans for Town’s
Bicentennial
Surry’s immediate future is wrapped in its past. For more than
three years, residents from all walks of life have been busy
planning and providing for the town’s gala bicentennial
celebration next spring.
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Memorial Park |
Students from the Surry Elementary School helped dedicate a
new flag at Surry Memorial Park last week. Residents raised
money, donated materials and volunteered labor to transform a
vacant lot in the center of Surry village into the memorial
park.
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| Small
Business |
Wesmac, the Industrial Heart of Surry
Founded in 1984, Wesmac, a custom boat building company located on
Route 172, represents the industrial heart of Surry.
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Lodging |
Fine Dining and Lodgings in an Out-of-the-Way
Spot
In the early days of the Surry Inn, guests came by steamship and
stagecoach. Now guests come by plane and car, but still they
come to find good food and cozy lodgings in this out-of-the-way
corner of Downeast Maine.
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Neighbors |
Local Historian Values Surry’s Community Spirit
If you’d like to learn about Surry’s history in a concise, easily
readable format, with lots of old photos, you’ll want to read
Osmond (“Oz”) Bonsey’s history, “Surry, Maine, An Informal
History,” which he wrote for the town’s upcoming Bicentennial in
2003.
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Neighbors |
Making Surry an Even Better Place to Live
The Surry Community Improvement Association was founded in 1970 “to
promote community spirit and improve the quality of life for all
residents of Surry by providing information, education, support
and social activities,” while continuing “to explore ways to
make Surry an even better place to live.”
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| At
Peace |
Surry
Is Home to Morgan Bay Zendo
Residents and visitors alike tend to emphasize the quiet, rural
nature of Surry when describing the town. Those qualities are
prominent at the 18-acre home of the Morgan Bay Zendo.
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Yesterday |
Surry
Began as an 18th Century Township
Surry was the sixth township laid out in 1762, west of the Union
River. Blue Hill, to the south, was Township No. 5, and
Trenton,
No. 7, was the first township to the east of the
Union
River.
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Parlez-vous |
Surry’s Language Guru Shares Enthusiasm with Students
Would you like to brush up on your high school French? Pick up some
conversational Italian? How about a little Swahili, Chinese, or
Scottish Gallic?
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Surry’s Rural Nature Nourishes Writer
Surry writer Susan Hand Shetterly has always wanted to be from
Maine.
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Singing for Peace: Surry Opera Company
When Walter Nowick first founded an opera company in Surry in 1984,
it was called “megalomaniacal” by a Surry resident and greeted
with amused skepticism throughout
Hancock
County.
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Go
Figure |
THE
FACTS
Acreage: 25,124
Population, 2000:
1,361
Population, 1990:
1,004
Population, 19 years and younger:
358
Median age: 41.1
Schools: Surry
Elementary School
Churches:
Methodist 1, other 2
Town meeting:
Last Monday in March
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They
Said It |
“Surry has all the trappings of
civilization with a wonderful rural quality.”
—Hugh Curran
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Milestones |
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The early years
1806: Schooner Fortune
is built, perhaps by Capt. Abijah Curtis who was her master.
1830: A total of 251 scholars attend five different schools.
1853: Capt. Benjamin Bullerwell of Surry is lost at sea on the
schooner Sea Bird.
1861-65: A total of 122 men are credited as Civil War soldiers.
1864: Lt. Col. William S. Carter, U.S. Colored Troops, dies at
Baton Rouge.
1870: The citizens of East Surry vote to build the Rural Hall.
1871: Capt. William G. Treworgy along with Charles C. Wasson
and Charles E. Treworgy are lost at sea with the schooner Annie Gardner.
1876: May 11, Mayflower Grange No. 222 is established in Surry.
1881: The steamboat wharf is built at Contention Cove.
1884: October, Robert Grindle, an aging man with an unsound
mind, murders Robert Young at his home on Grindle Hill.
1905: April 11, Arbutus Grange No. 450 is established in Surry.
1912: October, Edwin Goodwin murders Capt. Harry C. Young at
the bridge over Patten’s Stream.
2003: Surry will celebrate its 200th birthday as a town.
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