Sam and Josie Stinson and their family are sitting on their front porch on Swan's Island, 1904. Josie is sitting on the barrel, Gladys Stinson Hall is standing next to her, Sam Stinson is seated and beside him is Lizzie Stinson Smith.
Daughter Ruby Stinson Holmes is standing and beside her is Ruby and Will’s daughter Luella Holmes Savage. Will Holmes is standing on the steps.
Alden Joyce's house with the old Swan's Island Telephone building on the right (now owned by the Hitchcock family).
This house was once Lester and Helen Stanley’s house and then was bought by Bud and Melita Staples. In 2006 it was sold to Lester and Helen’s grandson, Lester Stanley.
The house is located at 8 Mackerel Cove Road. Notice the huge wood pile by the shed attached to the house.
Also the barn that is located across the driveway which was known as Shore Road. There is a weir in the cove that is visible too. Across the water is Roderick’s Head.
This is the place now known as the Swan’s Island Fishermen’s Coop. AKA Barter’s Wharf, Morse’s Wharf and Bill Sprague’s Wharf over the years.
At the time this picture was taken there was no electricity so it was pre-1950. Notice that there are no gas pumps on the wharf by the little building.
The dark building with one window on the left was the office where they sold various small boat related items and there was a place for the bookkeeper.
For many years Margaret Thomas worked as a bookkeeper there before the new office was built in the early 1980’s. On the right of the wharf is Roy Stanley’s boat, the Grace ’n Lunette.
