Ten Early (1864) Maine Steamboat Wharf Company. Ten (10) Stock certificates

Description

Early (1864) St. George Steamboat Wharf Company.
Lot consists of Ten (10) Stock certificates
All certificates are issued and uncancelled.
Issued 1864
This Maine
peninsula
and its islands were noted for immense flocks of
duck
,
geese
and other
waterfowl
. Although the region was part of the
Waldo Patent
, General
Samuel Waldo
complied with requests from
Abenaki
Indians
not to settle immigrants at what was their prized
hunting
ground. Consequently, the peninsula remained unpopulated until after the close of the
French and Indian Wars
in 1763. The
Revolutionary War
further slowed development, but during the 1780s, there was rapid settlement of the peninsula. It was incorporated in 1789 as part of
Cushing
. On February 7, 1803, the peninsula and its islands were set off and incorporated as St. George, taking its name from the river.
Farmers
grew potatoes. After 1830,
granite
was
quarried
and shipped nationally for construction.
Shipbuilders
annually produced three to four vessels, many for the coasting trade, exporting
cordwood
,
lumber
and
fish
. Factories
canned
lobsters
,
clams
and
sardines
. In the 1880s, the town's rugged oceanfront beauty was discovered by "rusticators"—visitors, including artists, who bought or built summer cottag