The Davistown Museum

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Fur    <----------------------------- Woodworking ------------------------------->   Fish
(Tourism after 1865)                          tools + water mills =                                                           .
Shipbuilding (coasting trade)
woodworking tools
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+ 1865 Textile Mills (cotton)                                         Blacksmiths
                                                                                       Edge tool manufacturers

The maritime culture of Maine:

17th century: fur trade + transatlantic cod fishery + cordwood
early 18th century: inshore fishery + cordwood + milled wood products
late 18th century: + growing coastal and West Indies trading
first half of 19th century: transatlantic transport until trade embargo (1807); florescence of the cod fishery; milled wood products plus lime
second half of 19th century: continuation of coastal trading; decline of transatlantic and West Indies trading. Continuation of lime trade, florescence of quarrying, decline of the cod fishery after 1860
1900: the end of the maritime era in Maine; rise of paper mills, shoe factories

Woodworking Tools Schema

General		Cooper
	--------------------Blacksmith------------------
Shipbuilding	\|	Housewright/Millwright
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	Other trades
	courier, farrier, cobbler, carriagemaker, flax dresser, weaver, fuller, lime burners