Boothbay Railway Village presents a Free Lecture and Slideshow on

Saturday, February 11, at 1:30PM

Wresting a Living from Our Land: Edgecomb’s Industrious Past

On Saturday February 11, at 1:30PM the Boothbay Railway Village will host its third in a series of speaker programs for this season. Admission is free to all for this most interesting discussion entitled “Wresting a Living from Our Land: Edgecomb’s Industrious Past”

Jay Robbins of Robbins Historical Research, Inc. has spent the past year and a half recovering information about Edgecomb’s industrial past. Starting with the earliest extant maps and working forward to the regional Directories of the 1930’s, our presenter has made the most thorough examination ever of the documents relating to Edgecomb’s history. With an eye towards understanding the strategies our forebears used to wrest a living from the land, Jay has compiled a massive amount of information about how Edgecomb folk worked, struggled, thrived and survived.

Through a presentation using photos, maps, broadsides and documents, Jay will share with us what he has learned so far about such places as Trask’s Mill, Parson’s Creek Tidal Mill, Huff’s Mill, the Shattuck and Hodgedon Tidal Mills, Huff’s Corn and Lobster Cannery, Rosicrucian Spring, Quarry Point, the brick yards along the Damariscotta, the several sites where ice was harvested, etc., etc. We will also learn a bit about our blacksmiths, housewrights, boat builders, coopers, glass pressers, wheelwrights, cordwainers, and shop keepers. The list of ways we have made a living goes on and on.

Attendees will gain a new understanding of how our local and regional economy changed with time. You will also garner a new appreciation for some of the visible remnants, found scattered throughout our town, of these earlier Edgecomb industries.

Come join us for this free presentation and learn a bit more about the State that we all love and its very unique history.