From collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Collection
Shoe remnants discovered in Pasonage crawlspace 2013
Shoes. A collection of the remains of late 19th-century leather shoes discovered in the kitchen crawlspace during the 2013 remodeling of the Great Cranberry Congregational Church parsonage house (177 Cranberry Road). Twenty soles or pieces of soles and two heel uppers with soles missing; remains of nine high boots with eyelets (some brass eyelets in-situ); and twenty leather shoe scraps. All shoe remains are leather, all soles are double- or single- row wood-pegged.
Details
Shoes discovered in Parsonage House crawlspace during remodeling 2013. Shoes were loaned to MDIHS for the Chebacco exhibit in their Somesville museum 11/15/17 to 9/12/18. Shoes loaned again 6/17/19 to MDIHS for summer 2019 same exhibit. Loaned 2 toes, three soles, and 3 upper boot fragments. Shoes returned to GCIHS 9/26/19.
