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    Wilder-Mayhew House Site, Dennysville, Maine

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    Wilder-Mayhew House Site, Hinkley Point Road, Dennysville, Maine. When the foundation was being dug for this first house by William Mayhew around 1800, he discovered what appeared to be a grave with red ochre, according to Peter E. Vose, a 19th century local historian. The house was later torn down and rebuilt in the early twentieth century.

    William Mayhew, brother-in-law of Theodore Lincoln, settled at this location on what was first called Potato Point, then Mayhew's Point, and finally Hinkley Point. Rebecca Hobart notes several later residents on this site: " Robert Wilder, Sr., and his son Herbert live on the Hinkley Point Road in the Pushee House, which was built on the site of the former home of William Mayhew, and later James DeForest." Robert Farnsworth Wilder Sr., left Dennysville as a young man to find work in New Hampshire and later Massachusetts, where he raised his family, including Robert Wilder, Jr., who returned to Dennysville and served as Fire Chief for many years. His son Herbert worked for any years on Cape Cod as a carpenter, before returning to Dennysville in retirement where he built a carpentry shop beside his father's house, and was willing to fix anything for anyone.

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    Wilder-Mayhew House Site, Dennysville, Maine
    Shipyard Road and Hinkley Point, Dennysville, Maine in 1881; The house built by William Mayhew on Hinkley Point was later occupied by James DeForest, and later by the Pushee Brothers, who operated a shipyard on Hinkley Point Road in the early twentieth century. Robert F. Wilder Sr., on a handsome rocking horse.; An inscription on the back of this photograph reads: