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Vinalhaven: Topographic Views

Gilchrist, Scott
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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/145518
Date
2008
Description
Coils of rope for lobster traps; Located in the Fox Islands in Knox County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,235 at the 2000 census. It is home to a thriving lobster fishery and hosts a summer colony. Since there is no bridge to the island, Vinalhaven is accessible from Rockland via an approximately hour-and-fifteen-minute ferry ride across West Penobscot Bay, or by air taxi from Knox County Regional Airport. On June 25, 1789, Vinalhaven was incorporated as a town, named for John Vinal. High quality granite was discovered in 1826, and Vinalhaven became one of Maine's largest quarrying centers for the next century. Today the island is dotted with abandoned old quarries. Like neighboring North Haven Island, Vinalhaven is well-known for its summer community of wealthy Northeasterners, mostly from Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/15/2012)
Type of Work
topographical view; photograph
Subject
architecture, contemporary (1960 to present), genre, landscape, seascape, Boats and boating, Fishing, vacation homes, summer cottages, Twenty-first century
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only
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