"Many of the men from Edmunds, and some from Dennysville, too, chose to make their living from seafaring" wrote Rebecca W. Hobart in Dennysville 1786-1986 . . . and Edmunds, too! (p. 101-2). These three photographs of the schooner Jennie French, stuck in the ice between the T.W. Allan and Peter E. Vose wharves on the Edmunds side of the Dennys River, is under tow by an unnamed tug. Hobart wrote (p. 38): These two [wharves] being nearer the channel, were more easily reached by vessels and therefore more often used for loading and discharging. Schooner frequently waited below the Narrows for high tide before coming up the upriver rather than risk the chance of being grounded. . . When the river above the narrows was closed to navigation by ice, the schooners for the packet came into Bosworth Cove, Belyea landing, Irving Kelley's shore, Carter's wharf, Hallowell's landing, or wherever open water provided an acceptable loading or discharging place." Here is an example of what could happen to an unwary captain who misjudged the tide and the temperature. The house visible on the left in the first picture was later owned during the twentieth century by Dan and Elsa Chubbuck, and named by them the "Heritage House." The third picture shows the Dennysville shore with the Congregational Church on the left and the Lincoln House on the right, while the lumber is stacked on shore behind the schooner.

Dennys River Historic PhotographsPhotos for Map

Schooner "Spartel" being loaded at T.W. Allan's Wharf