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Ledge Cemetery
Ledge Cemetery, also known as the Cemetery under the Ledge,''Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society'', Maine Historical Society (1899), p. 76 is a historic cemetery in Yarmouth, Maine, Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Dating to 1770, it stands on Gilman Road, around southwest of the older and smaller Pioneer Cemetery (Yarmouth, Maine), Pioneer Cemetery.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) Some headstones bear dates earlier than 1770, for many burials — such as that of Revd. Nicholas Loring — were removed from the older cemetery The original First Parish Congregational Church, known as the Meetinghouse under the Ledge, Old Ledge Meetinghouse, stood near the site between 1730 and 1818. Its first pastor was Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (minister), Ammi Ruhamah Cutter. Tristram Gilman, for whom Gilman Road is named, was the fourth pastor. He served in the role for forty years, and was buried in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilman Road
Gilman Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about from Lafayette Street ( State Route 88) in the northwest to the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge at White's Cove in the southeast. At the bridge, which connects the Yarmouth mainland to Cousins Island, the road becomes Cousins Road. One of the first streets laid out in the town,''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) it was later named for Tristram Gilman, the fourth pastor of the Meetinghouse under the Ledge, which stood near the road's intersection with today's Lafayette Street between 1729 and 1836, prior to Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth. (He was also the original 1771 occupant of what is now known as the Gilman Manse, which is located at 463 Lafayette Street.)''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002) Yarmouth's West Side Trail crosses Gilman Road a short distance east of the Pioneer Cemete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Captain
A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel.Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.3. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the ship, including its seaworthiness, safety and security, cargo operations, navigation, crew management, and legal compliance, and for the persons and cargo on board. Duties and functions The captain ensures that the ship complies with local and international laws and complies also with company and flag state policies. The captain is ultimately responsible, under the law, for aspects of operation such as the safe navigation of the ship,Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.4. its cleanliness and seaworthiness,Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.5. safe handling of all cargo,Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.7. management of all personnel,Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.7-11. inventory of ship's cash and stores,Aragon and Messner, 2001, p.11-12. an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broad Cove, Maine
Broad Cove is a prominent cove in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is around across at its widest point, its confluence with the waters of inner Casco Bay. It sits between Sunset Point, at the southern end of Yarmouth, and the eastern edge of Cumberland Foreside, Maine, Cumberland Foreside. Maine State Route 88, State Route 88 (formerly the New_England_road_marking_system#Route_1, Atlantic Highway) runs beside the cove (as Foreside Road south of the Yarmouth line and Lafayette Street beyond it). History In 1643, Englishman George Felt, who came to what was then North Yarmouth, Maine, North Yarmouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, from Charlestown, Boston, eleven years earlier, purchased in Broad Cove from Welshman John Phillips.''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) Later in the 17th century, Walter Gendall's farm incorporated the western end of the cove, at Duck Cove.''Collections of the Maine Historical Society'', Volu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Loring
Giles Loring (March 26, 1813 – October 2, 1893)''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) was an American shipwright during a prolific period at Yarmouth Harbor in Maine.''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p. 16 His shipyard was one of the four major ones during the town's peak years of 1850–1875,"Yarmouth Historic Context Statement – Town of Yarmouth and it launched the harbor's final vessel. Early life Loring was born on March 26, 1813, in Pownal,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theophilus Drinkwater
Theophilus Drinkwater (October 28, 1792 – December 15, 1872) was an American sea captain in the first half of the 19th century. Life and career Drinkwater was born on October 28, 1792, in North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now in Maine), to Allen and Hannah Drinkwater. Drinkwater's house stood at the southern end of today's Drinkwater Point Road, for whom the street is named. The house was built in 1791 by his grandfather, Nicholas. Theophilus married Louisa Prince in 1822. They had three children — Cornelia Amanda, Hannah Gray and Ferdinand. Two months before Maine's admittance to the Union, Drinkwater became a founding member of the Chapel Religious Society in North Yarmouth. In 1835, Drinkwater and his father purchased the homestead farm of Jonathan Moulton in North Yarmouth. In 1853, Drinkwater was listed as a stockholder in the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad. Death Drinkwater died on December 15, 1872, aged 80. He is interred in Yarmouth's Ledge Cemetery Ledg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuben Prince
Gilman Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about from Lafayette Street ( State Route 88) in the northwest to the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge at White's Cove in the southeast. At the bridge, which connects the Yarmouth mainland to Cousins Island, the road becomes Cousins Road. One of the first streets laid out in the town,''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) it was later named for Tristram Gilman, the fourth pastor of the Meetinghouse under the Ledge, which stood near the road's intersection with today's Lafayette Street between 1729 and 1836, prior to Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth. (He was also the original 1771 occupant of what is now known as the Gilman Manse, which is located at 463 Lafayette Street.)''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002) Yarmouth's West Side Trail crosses Gilman Road a short distance east of the Pioneer Cemet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cushing Prince Jr
Cushing may refer to: People * Cushing (surname) Places in the United States * Cushing, Iowa * Cushing, Maine * Cushing, Minnesota * Cushing Township, Minnesota * Cushing, Nebraska * Cushing, Oklahoma * Cushing, Texas * Cushing, Wisconsin * Cushing Island, Maine Other uses * Cushing Academy, a boarding school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts * Cushing Hall, a dormitory at Hampden–Sydney College in Hampden Sydney, Virginia * Cushing House, a dormitory at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York * Cushing House Museum and Garden in Newburyport, Massachusetts * Cushing's disease, an endocrine disorder (one of several specific causes of Cushing's syndrome) * Cushing's syndrome, an endocrine disorder (an umbrella term for several disorders, including Cushing's disease and related disorders) * Cushing reflex, in response to brain ischemia ** Cushing's triad, a clinical triad * Cushing ulcer, a gastric ulcer * USS ''Cushing'' (DD-985) See also * Justice Cushing (disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congregational Library & Archives
The Congregational Library & Archives is an independent special collections library and archives. It is located on the second floor of the Congregational House at 14 Beacon Street in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The Library was founded in 1853 by a gathering of Congregational ministers and has since evolved into a professional library and archives that holds more than 250,000 items, predominantly focused on 18th to 21st century American Congregational history. The Library's reading room is free and open to the public for research but the Library's stacks are closed and book borrowing privileges are extended exclusively to members. History The American Congregational Association The Library was organized on May 25, 1853 by a gathering of Congregational ministers who donated a total of 56 books and pamphlets from their own personal collections. The Congregational Library Association was formally established in 1854 in Boston, Massachusetts "...for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drinkwater Point Road
Drinkwater Point Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. One of the first streets laid out in what was then coastal North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (when it was centered around the nearby Meetinghouse under the Ledge), it runs for about from Gilman Road in the north to Seaborne Drive in the south. Drinkwater Point faces Cousins Island, to which it is connected by the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge, and overlooks inner Casco Bay. Drinkwater Point Road and Drinkwater Point are named for Captain Theophilus Drinkwater, son of Allen and Hannah Drinkwater. His house, built in 1791 by his grandfather, Nicholas, stood at the southern end. Theophilus was married to Louisa Drinkwater. They had three children — Cornelia Amanda, Hannah Gray and Ferdinand. Theophilus, Louisa, Cornelia and Ferdinand are buried in the nearby Ledge Cemetery. Several other members of the notable seafaring Drinkwater family, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristram Gilman
Tristram Gilman (November 24, 1735 – April 1, 1809) was an American Congregational minister who served as the fourth pastor of the "Old Ledge" meetinghouse in what was then North Yarmouth, Massachusetts (now Yarmouth, Maine), for forty years. Gilman Road, adjacent to where the church formerly stood, is now named for him. Early life Gilman was born in Exeter, Province of New Hampshire, on November 24, 1735. The son of Reverend Nicholas Gilman (who died in 1748, when Tristram was twelve years old), and Mary Thing,''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchinson Rowe (1937) he graduated from Harvard College in 1757. His younger brother, Joseph (1738–1806), was a judge in Marietta, Ohio. Joseph's son and Tristram's nephew, Benjamin Ives Gilman (1766–1833), was a shipbuilder and an extensive landowner in Ohio. Their cousin was Nicholas Gilman (1755–1814), a Founding Father of the United States. Ministry Gilman moved to Maine in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yarmouth, Maine
Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth, it was part of Massachusetts, and remained as such for 213 years. In 1849, twenty-nine years after Maine's admittance to the Union as the twenty-third state, it was incorporated as the Town of Yarmouth. Yarmouth is part of the Portland– South Portland-Biddeford Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town's population was 8,990 in the 2020 census. The town's proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, and its location on the banks of the Royal River (formerly ''Yarmouth River''), which empties into Casco Bay less than one mile away, means it is a prime location as a harbor. Ships were built in Yarmouth's harbor mainly between 1818 and the 1870s, at which point demand declined dramatically. Meanwhile, the Royal River's four waterfalls within Yarmouth, whose Main Street sits about above sea level, resulted in the foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (minister)
Ammi Ruhamah Cutter (before May 6, 1705 – March 1746) was an American Congregational minister who served as the first pastor of the "Old Ledge" meetinghouse in what was then North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Yarmouth, Maine)."North Yarmouth, Maine. First Church" – Early life Cutter was born in 1705 to William Cutter and Rebecca Whitmore.''A History of the Cutter Family of New England'', Benjamin Cutter (1871), p. 38 He was the youngest of their seven known children, and was baptized on May 6.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
