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    Bennet-Allan Shipyard House, Dennysville, Maine

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    Bennet-Allan House, Foster Lane, Dennysville, Maine
    Bennet-Allan House, Dennysville, Maine
    Houses on Foster Lane above T.W. Allan's Shipyard, c. 1885; Three houses are visible on Foster Lane on the far side of the Dennys River, beyond T.W. Allan's wharf and Hobart house in the foreground. T.W. Allan and Son also owned the shipyard where the schooner is moored in the distance, and the house above the blacksmith shop near the shore. T.W. Allan and Son wharves, shipyard and storehouses on both side of the Dennys River; Wharves and houses line the banks of the Dennys River, including the N.W. Bennet house on Foster Lane, later acquired by T.W. Allan and Son next to the shipyard he operated with his brother-in-law John Kilby. The Narrows on the Dennys River in 1881; Foster Lane follows the north side of the Dennys River in this detail from the Colby Atlas Map of Washington, County, published in 1881, by which time the Bennet House had been acquired by T.W. Allan and Son, close to their shipyard.