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Boothbay Region Historical Sketches, Volume II 

Barbara Rumsey, Editor $15

Published in 1999

This second volume of Sketches included 56 more articles from the column. The subject matter ranges from: the creation of Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor, the War of 1812, the Civil War, the region brickyards, vanished features, Linekin Neck, the region in the 1840s and in the 1910s, profiles of some of our residents, and more.

Barbara Rumsey wrote most of the articles, while Asa Tupper Sr., Jim Stevens, and Alden Stickney provided four of them. The book is softcover, 288 pages long, with 55 illustrations: 13 maps, 36 photos, and six drawings or documents. Trustee emeritus Alden P. Stickney drew many small sketches specifically for the book in order to enliven the text.

Chapter Titles

Section I:  The Creation of Boothbay and Boothbay Harbor

Boothbay's Carrying Places

The Origin of the Name "Boothbay"

The Division of the Towns

Section II:  Vanished Features

Boothbay Beasts

Bare and Rocky Boothbay

Horse Troughs

Boothbay's Old Willows

The Ice Boom of 1890, by the Boothbay Register

Section III: The War of 1812, The Civil War

Boothbay in the War of 1812 by Elizabeth F. Reed

Joseph Beath's July 1814 Letter

The Cannon on Sawyers Island

Benaiah Dolloff of Company K, 19th Maine

James Oliver Seavey on the Rappahannock

James E. Beath of Company E, 4th Maine, by Charlotte M. Beath

The Civil War Monument

Section IV: Boothbay in the 1840s

Boothbay in 1840

The 1840 Boothbay Census

Section V: Boothbay Brickyards

Boothbay Brickyards

The Morrison Brickyard

The Damariscotta River Block Plant and Brickyard

Section VI: Linekin Neck

The Holbrook Store in the 1860s

1880s Linekin, by Simeon Van Horn, Alberta V. Shute

Little River in the 1920s and 1850s

Section VII: The 1910s in the Boothbay Region

Household Life in Boothbay Harbor, 1915

1916 through the Boothbay Register

The Great Freeze of 1918

The Flu Epidemic of 1918

Section VIII: Some Memorable Townspeople

Richard Otis, by Jim Stevens

Photographers of the Boothbay Region by Alden Stickney

Winfield Thompson by Alden Stickney

Dr. James M. Todd, One of Boothbay Harbor's Great Benefactors by Asa Tupper, Sr.

Asa Tupper, Sr.

Sonny Hodgdon

Lincoln Giles

Hazel McCobb Poore