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| Name: | Mercantile |
| Launched: | 1916 |
| General characteristics | |
| Length: | 155 ft (47 m) overall, 80 ft (24 m) on deck[1] |
| Propulsion: | Sail, auxiliary engine |
| Sail plan: | gaff-rigged two-masted schooner |
| Notes: | shoal draft centerboard |
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| Location: | Camden Harbor, Camden, Maine |
| Coordinates: | 44°12′36.10″N 69°3′45.87″W / 44.210028°N 69.0627417°WCoordinates: 44°12′36.10″N 69°3′45.87″W / 44.210028°N 69.0627417°W |
| Built: | 1916 |
| Architect: | Billings Family |
| Architectural style: | No Style Listed |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 82005265 & 90001470 [2][3] |
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| Added to NRHP: | December 04, 1991 |
| Designated NHL: | December 4, 1992[4] |
The two-masted schooner Mercantile is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
The boat became a landmark in 1991.[4]
History [link]
Mercantile was built in 1916 and served as a coastal trading vessel until 1943, at which point she entered the tourist trade in Maine.
She was restored in 1989.
See also [link]
References [link]
- ^ Owner's site
- ^ "National Register page for Knox County, Maine". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-29. https://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ME/Knox/state.html.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. https://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ a b "Mercantile (schooner)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. https://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2098&ResourceType=Structure. Retrieved 2008-06-25.
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Commerce
Commerce is the activity of buying and selling of goods and services, especially on a large scale or quantity. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that are in operation in any country or internationally. Thus, commerce is a system or an environment that affects the business prospects of economies. It can also be defined as a component of business which includes all activities, functions and institutions involved in transferring goods from producers to consumers.
History
Some commentators trace the origins of commerce to the very start of communication in prehistoric times. Apart from traditional self-sufficiency, trading became a principal facility of prehistoric people, who bartered what they had for goods and services from each other. Historian Peter Watson dates the history of long-distance commerce from circa 150,000 years ago.
In historic times, the introduction of currency as a standardized money, facilitated a wider exchange of goods and services. Numismatists have collections of these monetary tokens, which include coins from some Ancient World large-scale societies, although initial usage involved unmarked lumps of precious metal.
