Grant Rock

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Grant Rock is a large submerged obstacle indicated on nautical maps and charts just north of Haynes Point, on the western shoreline of the Trenton Peninsula, in West Trenton, Maine.

“Winter’s Coming!”
11/09/2025

“Winter’s Coming!”

I post here when I am here. Aka: We’re from away. Meta wants me to operate this page like a business and monetize. Lack ...
04/29/2025

I post here when I am here. Aka: We’re from away.

Meta wants me to operate this page like a business and monetize. Lack of posting and therefore lack of interaction seems to be an issue.

Otherwise they intend to shut it down and delete it. What do you think? Silly? Yeah, that’s what I said. So here’s some pictures from last year.

Sillyness. Please like. Maybe the AI will leave it alone. Otherwise I’ll just start it up again from scratch when we’re there again this summer.

Trapping “Lobsta” off Grant Rock. 🦞🦞🦞
06/10/2023

Trapping “Lobsta” off Grant Rock. 🦞🦞🦞

05/30/2021

Sunset @ Grant Rock.

meets Grant Rock. He is only mildly impressed. ;)
05/30/2021

meets Grant Rock. He is only mildly impressed. ;)

~“Grant Rock.” The myth is reality!According to google this is it! 😳©️Mark W. Ó Brien 2020
09/14/2020

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“Grant Rock.” The myth is reality!
According to google this is it! 😳
©️Mark W. Ó Brien 2020



I found this in the Ellsworth American Archives. This route would have taken them out of Ellsworth and down the bay past...
07/01/2020

I found this in the Ellsworth American Archives. This route would have taken them out of Ellsworth and down the bay past Grant Rock several times a week.

When Covid hit I chose not to renew my Ancestry dot com membership. It was low on the Covid-pole. So I had to find an en...
06/10/2020

When Covid hit I chose not to renew my Ancestry dot com membership. It was low on the Covid-pole.
So I had to find an end around to figure this out.
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I stand corrected.
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It seems that the M.T. Grant as listed on this map was a farmer named Moses Grant. I now believe it is he and his family that Grant Rock was named for.
Moses wife was one Charlotte Jordan. So perhaps they were living on Jordan land that was portioned off for them?
I found their marriage records in a book on Google. And they farmed there at least until the 1860s.
They seem to have lost the farm. Then moved to Ellsworth and later died in the poor house.
This explains the Jordan connection but not the Grant Lumber/Ship building connection if there even is one.
Mystery solved?
Maybe....

Fun fact! The Passamaquoddy Indians named The Union River “Taucewaunicty” (meaning much flow, white and silvery.)
06/01/2020

Fun fact!
The Passamaquoddy Indians named The Union River “Taucewaunicty” (meaning much flow, white and silvery.)

After searching for several hours through old issues of The Ellsworth American online I finally found the obituary for I...
05/30/2020

After searching for several hours through old issues of The Ellsworth American online I finally found the obituary for Isaac M. Grant. Now I’m not so sure what the relationship is between him and James Grant and his sons J. T. and G. H. Grant, the lumber dealers that Grant Street was named after. Both James and Issac seem to have come from the Bath area originally so perhaps they are bothers or first cousins? They lived over the bridge at Ellsworth Falls in the same area. I’m not even sure where the “Grant Yards” are now. More digging to come yessiree bubs!

Grant Rock Haiku:~Lurking just beneath the surface of the waterGrant rock is down there.~©️Mark W. Ó Brien 2020
05/30/2020

Grant Rock Haiku:
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Lurking just beneath
the surface of the water
Grant rock is down there.
~
©️Mark W. Ó Brien 2020

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