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THE QLODDY LIGHT urrng lumber rn No 9 hence the name of Trescott for that town In 1808 he engrn eered the works for Fort Sullrvan left Eastport when the Brrtrsh took possesron rn 1814 and establrshed hrs ofiice at Luhec He resrgned hrs office rn 1818 and dred rn 1826 The first school house at the vrllage was burlt 1n 1817 It was two storres hrgh wrth a schooolroom on the first floor and a hall for town meetings above The other part of the town had been arranged into school drstrrcts prror to the war but the school system was of the most prrmrtrve type The moral srtuatron was far from pros perous or safe The character of the trade here had not been such as would help mor alrty and many who came to jO1111I'1 and to reap a harvest from rt would not have rm xx ere many good nd rrght thrnkrnff peo ple who saw the need of relrgrous rnfluence They organized a Parrsh Socrety and ar ranged the prelrmrnarres for burldrng a meetrng house A sum of money amount mg to 33 850 was subscrrbed by drfferent ones one half acre of land on the hrll nas grven by Nehemrah Small and work was commenced on the house The church was completed the 17th of August 1820 at the cost of 58300 John Sprrnger of Sterlrng Worcester county Massachusetts was the architect The length of the burldrng was 55 feet the breadth 46 feet wrth projec t1on 13x28 feet The herght of the Splfe was 125 1 2 feet a part of whreh was blown off rn the Saxby gale of 1861 The house was dedlcated on Wednesday August 30, 1820 The Reverend Elrjah Kellog preached C155 the sermon The srte of thrs burldrng rs very commandrng, rt can be seen from va r1ous drstant posrtrons and serves as a val uable land mark for vessels rn the effing Outsrde the vrllage agrrculture nd fish mg are pursued wrth not a lrttle profit Phe first herrrng cured by smoke was done by Danrel Ramsc el rn 1797 xx ho xx as rn structed by a Scotchrnan from Nlova Sentra The busrness rncreased unt1l 1870 when more thsn 500 000 packages were prepared for market rn one year Srnee then rt has deelrned and s udme packrng has trken rt place or rather rs conducted rn eonnectr n w1th1t Now sardrnes smoked herrrnff md potatoes are the p oducts or rndustry shrpped from our port Shr v burldrng md navrgrtron hav h ro 1 place rn our rndustrres from the first and The fir t sh1p hurlt rn thrs town x as thc schooner Hope of 125 tons constructed rn 1840 at Sew rrd s Neck by captarn Geor H W Allen Many of our town men h rd shrps burlt for themselves rn whrch they mrdr many trips to forergn ports There was only the one church untrl 1830 when the Chrrstran Chapel was hurlt rnr dedrcated 1831 The Methodrst Eprscopal church was erected rn 1846 and the Drs crples Chapel or Temple 1n 1862 The Catholrcs ere ted a chapel rn 1889 so there are now four places for worsh1p rn the vrl lage and five rn other parts of the town An effort for a gr Lded system wrth 1 hrgh school department rn the vrllage w rs not altogether satlsfactorx at first and scholars who wrshed the best facrlrtres for hrgher trarnrng were obliged to seek them r B. - y . . - '. ' . ' 1 ' 7 , ' a : ' . ' 1 1 ' , . . ' A . ' 1 1 a - . . I . . I . L K x I 1 , L li '. C -1 . . 5 . 'V . . 9. 1 2 .Q h' ' , ' ' . 5. ' ., . , ' ,, 2 , M ,T . A V , C t 1 . 1 1, . f 4 proved any community. However, there at times have become aleading interest. I' l s . r 'll . . , . I r I , ' ,N K c 1 ' - K s . c 1. 5, i . . . 5 - . . . i A , S x I ' , . , 1 . . L . a 1' 1 l C ' y 1 v s ' , . ' . g , . A x . lc c 'X 1 ' H .x ' Y .hu- ' . , , A A X l . . t . X . Q 2 g . 2 Q 1 - y . . 5 . . I , 2 ' h 1 l-f X v , ' I e ' c .. .Q ' ' . l .
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