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Ago i started the research as a dissertation. Hes an interesting figure. I will give you a couple of brief biographical insights. Born and raised in ohio, goes to west point, not a stellar student. Hes won to merit away from being dismissed every year, actually. [laughter] his best friend at west point was Winfield Scott hancock. Hes 32 out of a class of 52. He participates in the seminal wars and the new mexican wars. He sees himself being this career military person and making a life in the military. He finds himself as a Lieutenant Colonel in the War Department. If you have read the book, you know i tried to sidestep the claim that he was responsible for starting the american civil war. Was sent on a secret mission to talk to Robert Anderson about the prospe ....
Cornwallis over here to america, to the colonies, to support the war effort. Another one of captain tates sons, the youngest named robert, lexington and fought on the american side. There was a dynamic within the family. I am sure that captain tate at the time had to trade neutral ground. Ead neutral ground. He lived here until he died at the age of 94. He never left and stayed here is a citizen. Family, captain tate, lived here until 1794 when he passed away. He lost his wife in 1770. She was killed. She had gone to their storehouse where they kept food stuffs. It was boobytrapped. The reason it was is because provisions were missing from the storehouse. So, the son william had set up a boobytrap. Everyone in the family supposedly new. Supposedly forgotten. She had asked the servant betty to go out and grab some things out of the storehouse. Mary went out so herself and open the door. There was a musket ready to fire when the door was opened. It did, and she was tragically killed. The ....
Lobster boats going back and forth all the time, you see the islands, sailboats, all the activities that probably people think of a maine visit would be. We take a boat to fort gorgeous, a civil war era just off the portland kos. We are on hog island ledge. Where they built for gorgeous in 1858 to help defend portland harbor. We have completed an 18 6 it was completed in 1865 and was built with two sister forts off to the south. Its camel on how silent. They were designed to work in conjunction with each other to defend the harbor. Everyone thinks for gorgeous is a civil war fort when it was funded long before, and it was approved by congress. Things that occurred much earlier. We begin our feature on portlands history, talking about lobstering. In 2016, the Maine Lobster industry generated over 500 million. Next, we learn about its history and economic impact. Over here is my gps and radar. Here in the fog, it helps us figure out ....
States. We are founded in 1822. Collecting at this location since 1907 in portland. Historical city was in brunswick and moved to portland the 1870s, we moved from and c library to city hall once the society was donated, we library in 1907. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation and 13,000 square feet of archival Storage Space to the building. E that is what were in today, temperature and humidity control, climate controlled space, we store our collection. E have offsite Storage Space we use for larger collections and since weve outgrown our location. We connect on main, but have broader scope and reach back to the 15th century, terrible hat is not a amount of our collection, the bulk of our materials are from he 18th century and 19th century, from about the 17001900, although we have colonial and dating from the 1600s relating to canada and ime newsmakers. We are sho ....