131A Commercial Street

Flyer’s dock. As the dragger fleet shrank and shrank in recent decades, so did the need for enormous marine railways Continue reading →

131A Commercial Street

Flyer’s pier (Proposed). In 2017, Francis John “Grassy” Santos applied to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for permission to Continue reading →

Puritan Cold Storage Pier

131A Commercial Street. The pier and pier shed constructed around 1914 to serve the Puritan Fish Freezing Company Cold Storage Continue reading →

Smith’s Wharf

139 Commercial Street. Smith’s Wharf was something of a runt, and not a very long-lived runt at that. It stretched Continue reading →

Artemas Paine’s Wharf

145 Commercial Street. Artemas Paine (1815-1883) was a first cousin of the brothers Joshua Paine and Capt. Lysander N. Paine, Continue reading →

Central Wharf

163 Commercial Street. Central Street isn’t. Central, that is. While Center Street is near the center of town, Central definitely Continue reading →

B. H. Dyer’s Wharf

171-173 Commercial Street. Short and short-lived, this utilitarian wharf would scarcely have been remembered but for a couple of memorable Continue reading →

Joseph Manta’s Wharf

179 Commercial Street. Humankind had already managed to fly across the Atlantic Ocean by 2 May 1925, when the two-masted Continue reading →