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    Peter E. Vose's Wharf

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    Late nineteenth century photographs show both Peter E. Vose's wharf and T.W. Allan's wharf on the Edmunds side of the Dennys River, with schooners waiting to load and depart with the tide. Several map details show the proximity of the wharves with others on the Dennys River.

    Peter E. Vose's diary reveals that both he and T.W. Allan purchased their wharves on the Edmunds side of the River from previous owners. On November 10, 1853, Mr. Vose wrote, "Aaron Hobart sold his wharf and piling place to J. (John) & T.W. (Theophilus) Allan. $1,000," Nearly twenty years later, June 23, 1873, Mr. Vose said, "D.K.(Daniel, son of Aaron) Hobart from Windsor, N.S., is here. Purchased half of his wharf in Edmunds for $250. I owned the other part before." Legal papers belonging to the Eastman descendant Joan Bradley that Thomas Eastman, Jr., also had a wharf on the Dennys River in Edmunds. On May 10, 1861, Mr. Eastman issued a mortgage deed to Peter E. Vose for a lot of land in Edmunds with a wharf and storehouse thereon. Mr. Vose released his claim February 25, 1869. On April 1, 1873, a five-year agreement was made between Alden Eastman, Thomas' son, and the owners of the steam-tug "Spray" giving them the right to maintain the cistern built to hold water flowing from the spring near Eastman's wharf, to maintain the existing passageway or pipeway from the cistern to he river at a point convenient to run water into the boat, and to maintain the coal shed with liberty to lay a coal vessel at the wharf to discharge coal whenever the wharf was not in use. The owners of the "Spray" would pay $60 a year for these privileges. See note on p. 118 in R.W. Hobart's "Dennysville 1786-1986 . . . and Edmunds, Too!", 2nd Edition, 1993.

    Schooner Spartel and Capt. Ralph Hallowell
    Thomas Eastman Jr. House, Edmunds, Maine

    Wharves on the Dennys River,; The schooner Spartel loads at T.W. Allan's wharf in Edmunds on the Dennys River, while Peter E. Vose's wharf with its low shed is downstream to the left. On the hillside above are the Cambridge and Hanson houses located on the what was formerly the Preston, now River Road.
    Schooner Jennie French caught in the ice on the Dennys River; Peter E. Vose's wharf is seen behind the steam tug Dennys River Wharves, 1861; T,W. Allan's wharf is shown on the waterfront next to the house of Aaron Hobart, while Thomas Eastman Jr., who later sold his wharf to Peter E. Vose is living on the Preston Road on this detail from the map of Washington County published in 1861. Dennys River Wharves, 1881; Peter E. Vose's wharf is shown on the right of this detail of Dennysville from the Colby Atlas of Washington County published in 1881.