John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA and tug SOMMERS N. SMITH at Rockland, Maine in 1925 with barge carrying the 'Phippsburg Spite House' to new location at Deadman Point, Rockport.

John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA and tug SOMMERS N. SMITH at Rockland, Maine in 1925 with barge carrying the 'Phippsburg Spite House' to new location at Deadman Point, Rockport.

John I. Snow's steam lighter SOPHIA and tug SOMMERS N. SMITH at Rockland, Maine in 1925 with barge carrying the 'Phippsburg Spite House' to new location at Deadman Point, Rockport. See LB2013.21.213 for detailed image of house on barge. Googling 'Spite House Rockport Maine' provides a number of retellings of the 'spite house' story in Phippsburg, and the subsequent purchase by the Dodge family and move to Rockport. Northeast Historic Film hosts video from 1925 movies of the move - oldfilm.org/collection/index.php/Detail/Collection/Show/collection_id/146 see also LB2013.21.2004 & 2006; for much more on SOPHIA see John Richardson's 'Steamboat Lore of the Penobscot', Rockland Courier Gazette, 1941. (Vessel index at front.)