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Fishing, Shipbuilding and Whaling

Dorchester Whaling Company

"April 16, 1836  Elisha Preston, Josiah Stickney, Charles O. Whitmore, their associates and successors, are ...
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G. F. Lawson & Son, boat builders

G. F. Lawson & Son, boat builders

No. 20319 The Schooner Mahdee.   The company was located on Freeport Street, probably on the north side of ...
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George Lawley and Son, boat builders

George Lawley and Son, boat builders

No. 2224 Putnam Nail Factory (this site taken over by Lawley on Port Norflk). Advertisement in Youth's Companion, ...
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