Sumner High School - Spindrift Yearbook (East Sullivan, ME)

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THE HARBOR BEACON SULLIVAN S ERA OF SHIPBUILDING In the early days of this town the prlnclpal lndustry except farming fishing and the manu facture of lumber ln saw mills which have al ways afforded employment was the building and Salllng of shlps The Simpsons were among the earliest shlpbullders J oslah Slmp son one of the first of the family to settle here built several vessels ln which he himself oc caslonally made voyages to sea John Slmp son his son built the Rachel whlch was lost on Cape Cod ln the severe snowstorm of No vember 1798 Many of the Simpsons were well known as sea captains among them Josiah Simpson Jr who sailed from Castlne Sullivan and Belfast Amos B Slmpson son of James and Jare Slmpson who commanded more vessels probably than any other man ln Sullivan About thirty five years ago a great mlnlng boom ln Sullivan brought a perlod of great prosperity Valuable plants were erected shafts were sunk and prospectors from all over the country rushed here Among the lmportant mlnes ln town were the Fanuel Hall 8L Sulll van Waukeav Sullivan Pine Tree Milton Richmond Salem Sullivan Boss of the Bay and Golden Circle mlnes which were owned by the Copperopolls Huronlan Milton Starr Richmond Pine Tree and Sullivan mlnlng com pames The following note on Mllton the largest of these silver mlres was publlshed IH the Sulll van Weekly Bulletm Sept 11 1880 Milton Notwithstanding the very hard nature of the rock encountered ln runmng the cross cut whlch IS characteristic and peculiar to the country rock just before reachlng the ore channel whlch constitutes the Sulllvan lode the cross cut was advanced eight feet during the present Week Since last Wednesday the Burleigh drill has been runmng steadily day and night without any interruption the ground IS getting somewhat easier and lt IS expected that ex en better progress wlll be made the com mg week There IS hardly any doubt what ey er but that the outer veln lf no unfortunate accidents should occur wlll be reached IH a very few weeks We put a great deal of stress and Importance on the coming event because we can foresee the Important bearlng the antlclpated strike ln the Milton wlll have on the whole mining lndustry of the state lt wlll not only recompense the present owners of the property who have shown great perseverance and confidence ln their erterprlse ln erecting the best and most modern mining works ln the Unlted States but It wlll go far to show that when mlnlng IS conducted legitimately and intelligently and with practlc l experience the rlsk of mlnlng IS not any greater than farming or any other legitimately conducted enterprise Shaft Ixo 1 IS still tllrberlng ard on completion of WhlCh the required depth shall have been attalned a cross cut will be started for the purpose of reaching the lnner or quatzlte vein The saw mlll starts on Monday next The mlnes doubtless contalned deposlts of silver as well as some copper and gold but It was found to be too expensive to work them and the mlnlng boom untlmately ran the course of the majority of such booms in the East Two or three important efforts have been made to make Sullivan a great summer resort The first was soon after 1876 when Asa D Newton and Stillman Whlte erected the ma Jestlc Waukeag House on Beacon Hill at Sulll van Harbor The hotel was successful and popular for many seasons but untlmately It fell lnto the hands of a land company and later of Mr Frank Jones who sold lt to the Dunbars who tore It down In 1888 Mr Clyde Hunt and a party of capitalists bought about five hundred acres of land here and lald lt out ln lots a few of which were sold The project falled and the property passed into the posslon of the mortgagee Mr ll 15 , v . c Q a . o I ' ' . . . Y , ' , , - . . . . . . , 7 - r , . . . . . . , , . , u u n u n . . . . , . . 3 ' ' IK IY ' I 7 7 ! ' . - A A a , u 1 , . . . . . . . , , , . . . . . , ., , . . . . . Q . , , . , . . n . . . . . . a , . , I . . i . i . . . I . A . . , , , ' I , sinking will again be resumed, and as soon as . Y ' 1 - ' 1' n - Q - . ! 7 I . ' r or 1 r 1 ' ' ' . I ! r ' 1 r ' . 7 . 7 . 7 I . . ' . y , . . . Y u . . . . ,, . , , 1 , ' .. ' rx . . . . . , . , . - ! y ' . ' ' ! l 1 7 7 ' - . . I . , . . 1 , ' . , . . . 5 . . 3 1 '

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THE HARBOR BEACOY YK ooster stone cutters bonded of Joseph Blals dell the Porcuplne quarry wlth a half acre shore front and rxght of way to same The Panlc of 1837 fimsheo them after they had Shlpped one cargo Soon George Hlnman and Samuel Donnell bought the property then Hlnman bought Donnell out He sublet lt to dlfferent partles for local use Wllham K Weston of Augusta ln 1838 leased the Hopewell for a New York llghthouse Job Whlle gettmg the Job the foundatlon gave way ln a gale and the contract belng cancelled Weston falled and left town Elght years later one John Duff of New York rented Hopewell for Cormlchal Sz Co to do a Brooklyn dry dock Job uslng the hghthouse stone and makmg a two years Job for a large crew wlth stone at Hopewell and Hmman quarrles Charles and Edward Leonard of New York managers for B H Sage Kr Co d1d the next let of the dock Job leasmg a quarry from the wharf and rallroad and dld a b1g busmess for two years lncludlng a large engine house for the Navy Yard E H Sz H S Dyer local storekeepers ven tured ln 1851 by leaslng the Hlnman property domg about all the stone busmess for four or five years They furmshed gramte for the Ph1ladelph1a Navy Yard and other places also the stone for the Sulhvan Hancock brldge a proJect of Col Paul D Sargent who and the xce sunk 2520 OOO The Dyers went out West In 1857 A B Sz A Slmpson got the stone bee mto thelr heads and leased a quarry and wharf of Joseph Blaxsdell engaglng Alblon Sherman as foreman to get stone for Bluehlll partles to go to Fort Carroll Baltlmore Md In Sept 1857 Lemuel Crabtree bought a small quarry of Joseph Blalsdell later he bought a large quarry of Joseph M Bragdon dolng an edgestone busmess about ten years About 1869 Peltlah Moore went lnto busmess Shipping edgestone mostly and after a few 3 ears sold to Alfred Crabtree At thls tlme Lemuel Crabtree and Vhlham H Clapham were ln company and for many years dld a large buslness In 1872 pax mg came lnto general use after sex eral years of test agamst wood lron asphalt etc Thls gate Sulllx an a new llfe lease In May 1873 the Sulhvan Quarry C0 ac qulred control of the Hopewell College land Crabtree Clapham lease of John V Gordon and the Sulhvan Granlte Co but soon pulled out Then about 1875 John and Henry Slmpson of Rockport Mass came here Soon John bought out the others and thls closes thls epoch and opens a new The firm of Crabtree 8: Havey who have the largest quarrylng business ln town has suc ceeded to the buslness begun by Mr Crabtree s father Thelr speclalty has been edge stone Among the other firms that have been engaged ln the gramte lndustry here have been Dunbar Company whose quarrles formed the nucleus of the granlte buslness at West Sull1van the Stlmpson Gramte Company Wakefield 8z Orcutt Sherman Bunker Hooper Havey Sr Company Alonzo Abbott Rovertson Kr Havey Arno Wooster Alex Taylor W T Havey Jr Blalsdell Sr Abbott Joseph Cameron Charles Hanna ln company wlth Dunbar Bros and the Benvenue Granlte Co Those now ln buslness are Crabtree Sr Havey Hooper Havey Sz Co Harvey E Robertson Arno Wooster and Dunbar Bros Several of the gramte shlppers have made fortunes out of the stone and the stores oper ated 1n connectlon wlth the DUSIDGSS Several of the quarrles are owned by Capt Van Gordon who has leased them to the several firms en gaged IH the lndustry The gramte out of WhlCh new edge stone and pax mg blocks are the prlnclpal product has been the most potent factor 1n the prosperlty of thxs w lllage 14 1 , , D , . - . . Y . v v H . V . . . f. . Y? ' 1 ' ' . 7 . . ! 7 Y Y . , , . Y . ' ' Y 7 . . - . , 1 1 1 ., . I 7 'Y ' ., Y , . . , . 7 1 7 ' . . , , . . . . ., 7 Sullivan Granite Co., of Boston. They built a Bros. and E. F. Claphamg the Sulhvan Granlte , . . . . . . 3 - I - ' - - 2 1 ' r 1 r , S S S S ' 1 - - , -Z - Z S , , -5 - , , . . , , : , - - I y -5 - . . . , , . . , . . - , . I ! ' ' ' Y . 7 . . I . Y 0 , . , 0 !

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THE HA RBOR BEACON Dw1ght Braman There are many summer resldents ev ery season at Sulllvan Harbor how ex er and m other parts of the town There are few spots more beautiful than the Harbor Indeed the entlre shore front of Sulllw an affords cottage sltes CADDITIONAL FACTS OF EARLY SETTLERSJ Lawrence Doyle was one of the early resl derts of Sulllvan He was born m Ireland IH 1798 and came to Mame when a young man He marrled Lormda Abbott of Franklin and took up a clalm ID No 7 settllng rear Tunk Pond F1ve chlldren were born to Mr and Mrs Doyle Mary marrled Asa W hlte of Sulllvan James marrled Mary Welch settled ln Sulllvan but spent many years lr Cahforma John married Carollne Thompson of West Sulllvan went to Cahforma John H marrled marrled Arvllla Wllbur of Franklln went to Callforma as teacher and settled there Law renee Doyle dled m 1838 The Ash famlly were early settlers here The Ash famllles of Sullxvan were connected w1th those of that name ln Gouldsboro Thomas and Robert Ash settled at East Sullivan The latter was a shoemaker Thomas had three sons Joslah Ash trader and harness maker marrled Clarlssa Pettee Ellzabeth Ash mar rled Glbson Howe of Cherryfleld Her slster Charlotte marrled Joseph Wllkmson of Sull1 van and lived for some tlme at Gouldsboro later she was marrled to Ellsha Sargent George Washmgton Ash was born at Sulhvan and spent hls early years ln Rockland He marrled Sarah Roblnson of Appleton returned to Sullxx an and went lnto the meat buslness He had a general store IH East Sulllvan for twenty QZOJ years He dled m 1899 Olne Ash marrled Barney Bunker and lned ln East Sullivan Thomas Ash went to New York 1n hls youth and resxded there actmg as warden m Smg Slng prlson Among the early Hlll famlhes of Sulllwan were Samuel Hlll who marrled MITIHIH dauvh ter of Jabez Snnpson Thelr chlldren were Rebecca S Carolme and Samuel Jr Eroeh Hill marrled Olne daughter of J bez Simpson Thomas Marlam chlldren had one son Enoch H111 Johnson a sea captaln He dled ln Austraha Col Paul Dudley Sargent was a son of Col Epes Sargent of Gloucester Mass hls mother was a daughter of John Wlnthrop F R S her mother was Ann Dudley granddaughter of Gov Thomas Dudley of Massachusetts John Wmthrop F R S was a son of V alt Stlll Vkmthrop of Connectlcut and great grandson of Gov Vhnthrop of Massachusetts Bay the first Governor of the Colonles Col Paul IH 1806 'lhelr chlldren were L res ded ln Sullnan no chlluren rrarrled Capt lsalah VN ooster no OllN6 marrled Joshua Johnson They daughter of Thomas Saunders of Salem a patrlotlc and dlstmguxshed member of the Councll of Massachusetts durmg the dispute wlth the mother country Col Sargent had command of one of the n1neteen reglments whlch constltuted C en Vtashlngton s camp at Cambrldge ln July 17 r5 and at tli'I19S shared wlth the young Marquls de Lafayette the honor of ald de cazrp to the General RPQIHIGIILS IH those days were not up to the regul t on num ber and Col Sargent s Cnot the leastj numbered 192 men to these he supplled shoes and other garments at hls own expense and after serv mg honorably for more than three years retlred from the army having sacrlficed nearly all of hls pm ate fortune IH the cause of the Young Repubhc He was largely lnterested ln shlp pxng IH the East Indxa trade some of whlch were taken by Engllsh prlvateers when nearly ln port whlch so exhausted his resources that he was mduced at the age of forty four to make for hlmself and famlly a home at Sulllvan Whele he lned to the age of 61 fhtx three The old homestead a Luge square house wlth a flat 16 ' 1 -Y . I . Y . . . y O - v y , - ' Y 7 ' 'Y F 7 ' g . A . A . . 7 , 3 , , . , . , . . : ' : . . Y . 1 . ' 'r 1 ' 9 y . A . . , 7 ' I u 3 ' , . . 1 I 1 - , , ' . I I , . . L A . i 1 1 s A 7 'Y l V . , L , Y' 1 1 Y ' ' 'I . . z Y u. ,U Y . , , A I 1 1 1 . ' S r . 1. V . ' ' 'I . .Y 'T ' - ' I 3 7. . 1 1 , . 7 a 1 1 ' I Y , 7 J 'r ' . I Held? Abbott' Sealed m Frankllm Stephen' Dudley Sargent's wife was Lucy Saunders, Y 1 1 Y . 1 ' L' Y ' Y . 1 . ' . . . , . 7 7 . - , , 1 - -I A . v I 1 . . ' . ' 21 i - . , r 1 1 1 1 7 ' 3 I ' 0 3 s 1 I Y 7 . , , - . A . v . 1 l l . . 7 . , . i . . . - ' . 1 . ' . . . ,. . 1 1 F . . . I. 1 . ' . T Q 1 . 7- V . D . .A . . . 7 l , . . . . . . J 2, . 4. - . 1 1 1 1 V ,N I Y I ' I