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Thu 30 Mar 2023 6:39PM

Historic & Archeological Resources

JC Judy Colby-George Public Seen by 30

What did you think about the results of the historic and archeological inventory? Did it spark any ideas or concerns? Did you learn anything new?

Are there historic or archeological features/building in Harpswell that need protection?

AL

Allan LeGrow Sat 15 Apr 2023 9:51PM

We probably ought to consider adding Rte 123 from Brunswick to Harpswell as an archeological resource. Implication is the amount of development we should allow along this corridor .

AH

Amy Haible Thu 6 Apr 2023 3:45PM

Perhaps I don't understand the purpose of the inventories but I find this quite limited. As I mentioned at a meeting a month ago, Harpswell Neck Road is a historic road that deserves mention in its own right. It was laid out around 250 ago and was, I believe, surveyed at the time. You might also mention that many of the original settlements like Harpswell Center and Cundy's Harbor are situated where they are because getting to and from places in Harpswell was usually via water craft.

There is so much history in this town. I'm not sure how what has been presented, beyond the archeological sites of significance, can be used for implementation strategies. Maybe I'm missing the point.

BH

Brian Hirst Wed 5 Apr 2023 5:20PM

Judy, forgot about the map (Fig. 2). The Aziscohos were part of the Wabenaki/Abenaki nation so this is a bit misleading.

Brian

BH

Brian Hirst Tue 4 Apr 2023 6:26PM

Hi Judy,

Some of your info conflicts with some of the things that I read possibly due just to different interpretations from different sources. But here's my two cents:

  1. Pepjepscot (sp?). I saw Pejebscot.

  2. Some writers believe that the NA's moved to the coast in the Winter because snows were too deep in the woods for easy hunting and the rivers and lakes too frozen with thick ice.. It was apparently not unusual for NA's to starve in late Winter when food supplies ran short. At the coast food may have been available year round.

  3. In paragraph 2, The first European settler was...

  4. Also in Par. 2, the series of wars caused the NA's to retreat from the coastal areas and move inland.

  5. My understanding is that the term Merriconegan refers only to the low place on the Harpswell-Brunswick town line on the Neck.

  6. Are the 266 all middens or the combined middens and houses and sunken ships?

Cheers,
Brian