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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1857/00/00 Capt William Childs retires from a life at sea and begins oyster fishing. Oyster
1894/00/00 Samuel Child, son OF William Childs, builds an oyster shanty at the present location of the Cotuit Oyster Company.
1912/00/00 Harry Height, an executive at the Eastman Kodak Company, creates the Cotuit Oyster Company by buying out most of the independent oysterman.
1923/00/00 Harry Height sells his right in the Cotuit Oyster Company to the Seacoast Oyster Company of New Haven, Connecticut.

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Particulars for Cotuit Oyster Company:
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Food attribute Locally Caught Seafood
Area of Significance Maritime
Owner Private




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