
No. 10 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres In addition to founding one of the country’s oldest timber empires, Salem shipping merchant David Pingree ranks as a forward-thinker on a par with Henry Ford and Bill Gates. In the early 1840s, Pingree…
No. 10 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres In addition to founding one of the country’s oldest timber empires, Salem shipping merchant David Pingree ranks as a forward-thinker on a par with Henry Ford and Bill Gates. In the early 1840s, Pingree…
No. 10 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres) Salem shipping merchant David Pingree purchased his first tract of Maine timberland in 1841. The savvy Bay Stater sensed that the golden age of the clipper ship was coming to an end. Furthermore, the…
No. 10 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres In 1841, the Merchant Prince of Salem, David Pingree, purchased his first tract of Maine timberland. Pingree had become interested in land when acquiring pine cargo, and he sensed that the heyday of the…
No. 8 Pingree Heirs 830,000 acres Maine broke off from Massachusetts and was granted statehood in 1820. Only two decades later, David Pingree, an enterprising partner in a successful Salem shipping firm, saw opportunity in the northern part of the…
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