Synopsis

MECHANIC STREET
Uncovering the History of a Maine Neighborhood

by Eleanor Richardson

Softbound $18.95

While this is the story of one ordinary street in Rockland, Maine, it could be the story of any street, your street. Join the author as she demonstrates how to dig beneath the surface, poring through the Registry of Deeds, opening up dusty leatherbound tax records in City Hall, scouring Vital Records and bringing alive neighbors of long ago.

The houses on Mechanic street were built when the rough and tumble city was aborning in the mid-nineteenth century. Searching for the people who built them, she found ship captains and shipbuilders mariners and fishermen, ministers, mothers, one mayor, educators and scholars, and even a house of ill repute. Exploring a century and a half of kinship systems, the genealogical data will be of interest to families in Midcoast Maine, and to those who have moved “away.”

Hardbound and softbound editions, 162 pages, profusely illustrated with old and new photos, many in color. Indexed. Hardbound ISBN: 978-0-9741152-4-5. Softbound ISBN: 978-0-9741152-5-2

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