{"id":160,"date":"2017-06-12T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/researchbdev.wpengine.com\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/?p=160"},"modified":"2017-10-04T10:46:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T14:46:18","slug":"verona-island-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/bucksport-region\/verona-island-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Verona Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-309 size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/verona-island-3.jpg\" alt=\"verona island maine\" width=\"250\" height=\"166\" \/>This small island was the site of the McKay and Dix shipyard, where Robert E. Peary\u2019s innovative ship S.S.\u00a0<em>Roosevelt\u00a0<\/em>was built in 1904-05. The <em>Roosevelt<\/em>, a heavily built wooden vessel designed to crash through ice, was the last ship built there. Traces of the shipyard\u2019s launching ways are visible around the public boat launch. Find the spot off Route 1 just before the bridge from Verona Island to Bucksport.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-310 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/files\/2017\/06\/verona-island-2.jpg\" alt=\"verona island maine\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Address: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Verona+Island,+ME+04416\/@44.5360029,-68.8156029,13z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x4cae5da56918749b:0xe508fc4a6d71b6d8!8m2!3d44.565352!4d-68.7903098\">Verona Island, Maine 04416<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veroname.org\">http:\/\/www.veroname.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Photo courtesy of the Town of Verona Island, Maine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small island was the site of the McKay and Dix shipyard, where Robert E. Peary\u2019s innovative ship S.S.\u00a0Roosevelt\u00a0was built in 1904-05. The Roosevelt, a heavily built wooden vessel designed to crash through ice, was the last ship built there. Traces of the shipyard\u2019s launching ways are visible around the public boat launch. Find the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bucksport-region","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.bowdoin.edu\/maine-arctic-trail-map\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}