by Barbara Desmarais | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
When Samuel R. Jackson, farm-boy-turned-merchant, headed to the Gold Coast in 1850, he faced a long and arduous journey by foot, wagon train, or ship. He may well have joined several other adventurers from the Topsham area who sailed down the Atlantic coast to the tip...
by Barbara Desmarais | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
The Brunswick Telegraph said it best: Samuel Randall Jackson “was the architect of his own fortunes.” Born in New Hampshire in 1803, then raised on a small Vermont farm, Samuel realized early that rural life wasn’t for him. So at age thirteen he left home to make his...
