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    Knapton House, Edmunds, Maine

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    Knapton House, South Edmunds Road, Edmunds, Maine. John and his brother, Doug, Knapton were amateur archeologists who discovered and collected a significant number of Native American artifacts. The house is no longer in existence.
    Knapton House, Edmunds, Maine
    Painting of the Knapton House, Edmunds, Maine John Knapton exploring Dennys Bay in a skiff with archeologist Ted Stoddard in 1949.; Courtesy of the R.S. Peabody Museum, Andover, Massachusetts Dennys Bay with the South Edmunds Road, and the Knapton's house at penciled number 11.; Red marks on this U.S.G.S. map were added by Harvard archeologist Ted Stoddard to indicate places to which he was guided by the Knapton brothers during the North East Archeological Survey in the summer of 1949.