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Handsboro

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This Handsboro Community Marker is located on Pass Road in Gulfport, 
in front of the Masonic Lodge.



The text of the marker:
"HANDSBORO


N.  1 mi.  Founded c 1800.  Famed, 1840-1900, for foundries, sawmills & shipyards;  Coast's first newspaper, "Democrat" (1846); and many fine academies.  Here Jeff. Davis attended Polar Star Lodge.  founded in 1852."
 











Photo courtesy of Joe and Sarah Casey.

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