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In memory ofCapt. Curtis Blakemanand theMarine Settlement
Just north of here, in 1819, a group of sea captains,Blakeman, Allen, Breath, Deselherst, and Meadfrom Connecticut, arrived and built log cabins,naming the settlement Marine.Captain Curt…