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The Clarke and Lake Company Archeological Site encompasses all that is left of a historic colonial settlement in Arrowsic, Maine. The site, located on the banks of the Sasanoa River on the northern part of Arrowsic Island, was the local headquarters of the business enterprises operated by Major Thomas Clarke and Captain Thomas Lake. Clarke and Lake were successful merchants and businessmen based in Boston, who at their height claimed more than 450 square miles (120,000 ha) of territory in the Kennebec River watershed, in addition to land holdings and business interests elsewhere. They acquired Arrowsic Island, and established their settlement c. 1654, eventually building a large manor house, warehouse, gristmill and sawmill, and numerous other outbuildings. They developed a small community on the island, with farms and shops, and managed the civic business of the area. Their business included trade with the local Native Americans, fishing, lumbering, and the raising of cattle for shipment to Boston.
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- ↑ Baker, Emerson (1985). The Clarke & Lake Company: the historical archaeology of a seventeenth-century Maine settlement. Maine Historic Preservation Commission. pp. 1–14. OCLC 12953271.
- ↑ Stewart, Alice R. (1979) [1969]. "Davis, Silvanus". In Hayne, David (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography . Vol. II (1701–1740) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ↑ Rev. Henry O. Thayer, "The Problem of Hammond's Fort; Richard Hammond, His Home and Fort," Collections & Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Number One; Published by the Society, Portland, Maine 1890
- ↑ Baker, p. 17
- ↑ Baker, p. 15
- ↑ Brief Description and History of Arrowsic, Maine
- ↑ A History of Georgetown Island, Maine Archived 2008-09-23 at archive.today
- ↑ "Collections, Historical and Miscellaneous and Monthly Literary Journal". Hill and Moore. 1831.
- ↑ The Preble Massacre -- June 9, 1758