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Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.
Post Office and General Store (Whitman & Wright), Ocean Bluff, Mass.
Up at the Bluff in 1900, S.G. Capen's Store sold the latest goods and souvenirs popular with vacationers. His merchandise included groceries, tinware, cigars, tobacco, bread and pastries, ice cream, confectionaries, stationery, periodicals, bathing suits, boots and fishing tackle "for sale or to let." A wooden walk ran between Capen's and the beach bluff in those days. The store became Briggs & Maxwell in 1907. Later it Became Whitman & Wright, then Wright and Starrett's general store, but it was known far and wide as Bessie's for Bessie Wright...
Marshfield, a Town of Villages, 1640-1990
By Cynthia Hagar Krusell, Betty Magoun Bates, 1990
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Posted in the Past: Revealing the true stories written on a postcard
Discover the people who lived there, the places they visited and the stories they shared.
Post Office and General Store (Whitman & Wright), Ocean Bluff, Mass.
Up at the Bluff in 1900, S.G. Capen's Store sold the latest goods and souvenirs popular with vacationers. His merchandise included groceries, tinware, cigars, tobacco, bread and pastries, ice cream, confectionaries, stationery, periodicals, bathing suits, boots and fishing tackle "for sale or to let." A wooden walk ran between Capen's and the beach bluff in those days. The store became Briggs & Maxwell in 1907. Later it Became Whitman & Wright, then Wright and Starrett's general store, but it was known far and wide as Bessie's for Bessie Wright...
Marshfield, a Town of Villages, 1640-1990
By Cynthia Hagar Krusell, Betty Magoun Bates, 1990
Postcard
Posted in the Past: Revealing the true stories written on a postcard
 (East Marshfield) (Green Harbor) (Ocean Bluff) (Marshfield Hills) (Brant Rock) - Post Office and General Store (Whitman & Wright), Ocean Bluff, Mass.
Up at the Bluff in 1900, S.G. Capen's Store sold the latest goods and souvenirs popular with vacationers. His merchandise included groceries, tinware, cigars, tobacco, bread and pastries, ice cream, confectionaries, stationery, periodicals, bathing suits, boots and fishing tackle "for sale or to let." A wooden walk ran between Capen's and the beach bluff in those days. The store became Briggs & Maxwell in 1907. Later it Became Whitman & Wright, then Wright and Starrett's general store, but it was known far and wide as Bessie's for Bessie Wright...
Marshfield, a Town of Villages, 1640-1990
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