Book
The Clarke & Lake Company: The Historical Archaeology Of A Seventeenth-Century Maine Settlement
(1985)
Abstract
The book explores the archaeology of the Clarke and Lake Company headquarters on Arrowsic Island, Maine (1654-1676), and places it in the context of English settlement and trade in the Kennebec region of Maine in the seventeeenth-century. Major Thomas Clarke and Captain Thomas Lake were prominent Puritan merchants of Boston estalished a saw mill, lumber yard, trading post, and farmsteads to provide them with exports to England and the West Indies.
Publication Date
1985
Publisher
Maine Historic Preservation Commission
Series
Occasional Publications in Maine Archaeology
ISBN
978-0935447002
Citation Information
Emerson Baker. The Clarke & Lake Company: The Historical Archaeology Of A Seventeenth-Century Maine Settlement. Vol. 4 (1985) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/emerson-baker/40/