To Some, Tate House Was a Home ; an Exhibit Highlighted During Old Stroudwater Day Revisits the Many Who Lived There.
Portland Press Herald › July 15, 2005
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On a cold day in January 1903, Benjamin De Coste walked home from his job at the sawmill in Stroudwater Village, sat down in his front parlor and died.
According to family lore, he had a heart attack. He was 50 years old, and he left behind a wife and eight children - a family he had uprooted from Nova Scotia 12 years earlier, when he came to Maine looking for work.See the full content of this document
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To Some, Tate House Was a Home ; an Exhibit Highlighted During Old Stroudwater Day Revisits the Many Who Lived There.
De Coste's death wouldn't stand out, except that he happened to live in what is now the Tate House Museum, one of Portland's oldest homes and a National Historic Landmark.
De Coste's descendants have long reli...See the full content of this document
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