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Handsboro, one mile north, was founded circa 1800 and was famed from 1840 to 1900 for its foundries, sawmills, and shipyard, for the Coast's first newspaper, the "Democrat" in 1846, and for many fine academies. Jeff. Davis attended Polar Star Lodge here, founded in 1852.
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