(Far left) Daniel J. Sawyer (top), and Edwin M. Sawyer (bottom)
D.J. & E.M. Sawyer Store photos: (left) From the Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co. Collection, Courtesy of the Penobscot Marine Museum. (right) Modern day
JHS Heritage Center & Museum
The JHS Museum contains a large collection of artifacts from the era when the Sawyer Building housed a general store, ships chandlery, bank, and customs office. Also, within the JHS Museum, a Jonesport Heritage Center consists of three computer databases: Genealogy, Cemeteries, and Archives (see descriptions below). Each database is accessible with a user-friendly menu and a help menu. There is also a digital Guestbook in which visitors can enter comments or report errors found in a database.
JHS Databases
Databases - Main Menu
Genealogy Database
A Genealogy database created with Family Tree Maker® software currently contains information on 87,000 people, dating back to ancestors of the first settlers of the Jonesport-Beals area. Information about birth, place of residence, marriage, occupation, death, parents, spouses and children can be found in more than 700,000 text records.
Local Cemeteries Database
A Local Cemeteries database contains information on 4500 graves in the 38 cemeteries of the Jonesport-Beals area. Burial location, date, age at death and veteran status are included. Photos of 2600 gravestones, 1100 obituary columns, 1000 funeral registers and 750 deceased have been inserted so far. There is also an Other Cemeteries database with 350 obituaries of Jonesport folks buried in other towns.
Archives Database
An Archives database is a multi-media collection of all the archival information that the historical society has acquired since its inception in 2003. The subject matter is grouped into about 40 categories, including historical photos from family albums; biographical sketches and extracts from videotaped interviews with interesting long-time residents; photos of historical documents and artifacts; information on the history of Jonesport, its various industries, historic buildings, organizations, and natural resources; and numerous other topics. The Archives database currently contains over 19,000 photos, 4,500 pages of local newspaper articles, 27,000 pages of documents and other text, and more than 470 audio/video clips that run a total of 17 hours.
