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New Price
- "A Breach of Privilege: Cilley
Family Letters 1820-1867" by Eve Anderson published by Seven Coin Press
in 2002. Hard cover, 45 photographs and illustrations, four color dust
jacket and ribbon place marker. 520 pages. This book won a national award for
"excellence in history" in 2003
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28.00 |
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- "History of Thomaston, Rockland and South
Thomaston" from 1605 to 1863 by Cyrus Eaton. History, genealogy; 2 vol.
set, indexed; hard cover, 940 pages.
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set 55.00
per book 30.00 |
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- Index of Eaton, 2 vol. set.
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free with purchase of set above |
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- "Thomaston Scrapbook", F.L.S. Morse.
Record of the town from 1860 to 1960. First published in the
Courier-Gazette of Rockland, Maine. 2 vol. set; hard cover, 486 pages,
illus.
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55.00 |
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- "Tall Ships, White Houses and Elms", a
photographic tour of Thomaston between 1870 and 1900. Soft cover, 155
pages, 2 vol. set.
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set 42.50
per book 22.50
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- "Remarks of My Life", Hezekiah Prince,
Sr. (1786-1839). From diaries and journals of a prominent citizen of
Thomaston.
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Copies
of this book can still be found as second hand books on the Internet.
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- "Barton's Mills", H. Hyatt Verrill, soft
cover. Rediscovered copies of the book we had thought was out of print.
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10.00 |
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- "A Town That Went To Sea", by Aubigne
Lermond Packard, a history of Thomaston and the Georges Valley from its
early days of settlement through its most illustrious period of
shipbuilding and seafaring. Illustrated with photographs of vessels and
other items of historic interest. The 416 page soft cover volume
includes a full list of ships built in Thomaston
and a roster of the many captains who took them to sea.
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18.50 |
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- "Place of Honor" by Casey Tibbitts, is a
work of fiction based on historic fact. Mr. Tibbitts, the
great-great-great grandson of
Jonathan and Deborah Cilley, writes about the twenty-fourth,
twenty-fifth
and twenty-eighth Congressional sessions, a time in history that has
special
significance to the Cilley family. The book is excellently researched
and
well written. Soft cover, 407 pages.
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22.95 |
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- "The CILLEY FAMILY ROOTS In New
England" A Genealogical Workbook by Annie M. Cilley, tracing the
Cilley family through fourteen
generations. Extensively illustrated with photographs and documents,
this
well indexed book has 820 pages and is hard bound.
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50.00 |
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- 1878 Map of Thomaston showing the shapes
of each building at the time.
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5.00 |
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New Price
- "Reflections of My Life" by Judge
William
Foster Norris, 1847-1923. Norris was the son of a Thomaston sea
captain.
His monograph, written in his later years for his family, is an
interesting
study of life in nineteenth century Thomaston during the height of the
ship
building era. This is a new paper back book.
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9.50
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New Releases
- "Apparitions: Being a Recounting of
Certain
Spectral Occurrences in the Northeast in the Last Century" as told
by
William Dale is a collection of six documented ghost stories that are
beautifully
illustrated in pen and ink drawings by Neil Dale.
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9.50
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"Imperative Duty to My Country:
Three Civil War Journals
of
James
Henry Hobbs Hewett"
With Prefaces and Notes by Brian S. Heintzelman.
Major Hewett, a resident of Thomaston, served in the Maine 8th
Infantry. Following the war, he returned and became one of the
outstanding men of the town in both his secular and spirtual life. The
book is 222 pages in soft cover with many photographs.
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19.95
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Other New Products for Sale
- Coffee Mugs - White
with a rich green drawing depicting Thomaston and celebrating our
history of Tall Ships, White Houses and Elms. The drawings were created
by artist Margaret McCrea.
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Members-
5.00
Non-members-
7.50
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- T-Shirts
White with three different pen and ink designs depicting Thomaston
Harbor in the 1800s from original drawings by Don Rand. The front of
the shirt bears the name Thomaston Historical Society with
the dates 1605-2005 over the left breast. Drawings and lettering are in
black. These shirts were made in celebration of our 400th year
celebration of the landing in Thomaston of British explorer, Captain
George Waymouth.
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10.00 |
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- Note paper, folded notes and envelopes
with line drawing of the 316 ton schooner Albert D. Henderson
at the wharf of the former J. A. Creighhton lime kiln. She was built by
Captain Avery and other owners in 1870. General Henry Knox's estate, Montpelier, is
visible on the left center horizon line. Packaged 10 to the box and
housed in a crisp acetate box, they make a lovely gift.
- Major-General Henry Knox post card
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5.95
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