Above is a timeline that’ll take you through numerous important events spanning the 50 years of this project. Each will have any accompanying photograph, and all will assist in forming a more cohesive narrative of Great Cranberry’s start. The right arrow will progress the timeline, and the left arrow will return to the previous entry. Below, you’ll find a text-based timeline that can also be interacted with for easier navigation.
Endnotes:
- 1. “Cranberry Isles, Maine One Place Study,” WikiTree, accessed April 8, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Cranberry_Isles%2C_Maine_One_Place_Study#Pioneer_Settlers.
- 2. “Benjamin Bunker,” WikiTree, accessed April 8, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bunker-711.
- 3. “1785-Rufus Putnam Survey,” database, Cranberry Island Censuses, RootsWeb, accessed April 10, 2025, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~meccranb/census/cranberrycensus.htm#:~:text=West%20Cranberry%20Island%20Sands%20Stanley,now%20abandoned.
- 4. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society, History of Cranberry Isles, accessed April 9, 2025, https://www.gcihs.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/History-of-Cranberry-Isles.pdf#:~:text=dashed%20Britishers%20as%20hard%20as,Stanley%2C%20was%20one%20of%20the.
- 5. “1800 Census of Cranberry Isles,” database, Cranberry Island Censuses, RootsWeb, accessed April 10, 2025, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~meccranb/census/1800.htm.
- 6. “1810 Census of Cranberry Isles,” database, Cranberry Island Censuses, RootsWeb, accessed April 10, 2025, https://sites.rootsweb.com/~meccranb/census/1810.htm.
- 7. “Sans Stanley,” WikiTree, accessed April 10, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-2925.
- 8. “John Rich,” WikiTree, accessed April 12, 2025, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stanley-2925