Historic Mystic Seaport - Reflections

by Dora Sofia Caputo

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Historic Mystic Seaport - Reflections

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Dora Sofia Caputo

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Historic Mystic Seaport - Reflections - By Dora Sofia Caputo
Mystic Seaport: The Museum of America and the Sea, in Mystic, Connecticut, is notable for its collection of sailing ships and boats, and for the re-creation of the crafts and fabric of an entire 19th-century seafaring village.
Long before Mystic Seaport's ships, shops and shipyard, the banks of the Mystic River were filled with...ships, shops and shipyards. Since the 1600s, this historic area has been a center of shipbuilding. Between 1784 and 1919 - the golden age of American maritime enterprise - more than 600 vessels were constructed along the Mystic River. But with the advent of steam power and the decline of wooden shipbuilding after the Civil War, textile manufacturing became Mystic's dominant industry.
Big dreams during the Great Depression.
As the great Age of Sail gave way to steamships and railroads, wooden ships and boats were turned into firewood and the nation's seafaring traditions began to disappear, three Mystic residents decided to work together to keep the past alive

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January 14th, 2020

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