"The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World" Roll 1, Section 3/44

[ The Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage ‘Round the World is viewed from right to left ]

The residences, mostly new, wood-frame houses, continue south of the growing city pushing closer to the industrial and rural sections further down on the peninsula. At far right, an unidentified topsail schooner sails downriver past the City Planing Mill Wharf where large stacks of lumber await processing. The head of Palmer’s Island where the Palmer’s Island lighthouse would be built in 1849 sits in the middle of the river. In the foreground the men are fishing from a rowboat.

Significantly and uniquely the Panorama artists included a view of a handsome structure on Palmer’s Island. By the 1860s this structure was a hotel, and while it may well have been one in the 1840s its uses remain undocumented. The industrial and rural south section of the city includes the large and prosperous Leonard’s sperm oil refinery and candle manufacture (identified by the smoke stack just beyond Palmer’s Island,) several facilities for the making of salt from sea water utilizing windmills as water pumps, and some farms.