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Family |
Where Lobster
Is King
“It’s the biggest paying industry in Winter
Harbor,
that’s for sure,” said Susan Soper of the Winter Harbor Lobster
Co-op.
The co-operative, located a quarter mile from the
center of town, has 27 members. It buys lobsters from the
fishermen when they get off their boats in the evening and sells
them to DC Air and Seafood, another Winter Harbor-based industry
that disperses seafood from Boston to Canada.
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Yesterday |
It Started
Out as Mosquito Harbor
Mosquito
Harbor
was just another bay in the larger town of
Gouldsboro.
Gouldsboro, Plantation No. 3 east of the Union
River,
was laid out in 1762 and granted to Nathan Jones, Robert Gould
and Francis Shaw. Thomas Frazer of
London
financed the venture to explore the new township, sending his
attorney John Lane to represent his interests.
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Today |
Anchors
Aweigh
Winter
Harbor
is a town in transition.
Since the Navy
base officially shut down in June, Winter
Harbor
has lost not only a major economic contributor to the community,
but also a group of friends and neighbors who can’t be replaced.
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Neighbor |
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At Work and at Play
The sea has always been a
fact of life for the people of Winter
Harbor.
Schooners transported lumber and laths back and forth to
Boston and the Canadian
provinces in the 1830s. The brig Pilgrim, built at
Stave
Island in the 1850s, acquired fame when F.H. Dana sailed around
the Horn and recounted his experiences in “Two Years Before the
Mast.”
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Go
Figure |
Acreage: 8,031
Population, 2000: 988
Population, 1990: 1,157
Population, 0-19, 2000: 314
Median age: 31.3
Municipal Building:
23 Harbor Drive
P.O. Box 98
Winter Harbor, 04693
Phone: 963-2235
winterharbor@downeast.com
Schools: Winter Harbor Grammar School, Sumner
High
Library: Winter Harbor Public Library, 963-7556
Town meeting: third week in June.
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They
Said It |
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“The Navy Base was
a great asset to the town: it brought a
lot of husbands.”
—Adelaide Wakefield, age 90, Winter
Harbor native active in the Acadia Woman’s Club.
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Milestones |
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The early years
1790:
George Chilcott settles on Ironbound.
1831:
A road is laid out from South Gouldsboro to
Mosquito Harbor.
1837:
Dr. Pendleton purchases Lot C of 110 acres
for $303.50.
1850:
Fifty people living at Lower Creek.
1856:
Mark Island Lighthouse commissioned,
Frederick P. Gerrish is first keeper.
1867:
Dr. Pendleton records the drowning of eight
people near Ironbound.
1887:
Beacon Hotel is built above the Harbor.
1897:
Road is laid out to Schoodic Head.
1911:
The Winter Harbor High School opens.
1935:
Big Moose Island is chosen as a site
for a Navy Radio Station.
1952:
Sumner High School in Sullivan opens.
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