CONTENTS
[How Treasure was Buried] 19 [Fort Gorges] 21 [Fort Scammell] 23 [Peaks Island] 25 [Cushing’s Island] 27 [Willard Beach] 29 [Portland Head Light] 31 [Cliff Island] 33 [Richmond’s Island] 35 [Turner’s Island] 37 [Eastern Shore Line, Portland] 39 [Cape Elizabeth Shore Line] 41 [Mackworth’s Island] 43 [Jewell’s Island] 45 [Great Chebeague Island] 47 [Great Diamond Island] 49 [Pond Island] 51 [Fort Preble] 53 [French’s Island] 55 [Bailey’s Island] 57 [Orr’s Island] 59 [Harpswell Neck] 63 [Shelter Island] 67 [Long Island] 69 [Pettengill Island] 71 [Sebascodegan or Great Island] 73 [Treasure Hunting Equipment] 75 [Bibliography] 77
About the Author
— Retired in 1976 —
Now City Historian for South Portland, Maine
B. F. Kennedy, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine in 1916 and has spent most of his life in this area, attending grammar school and high school in Portland. Mr. Kennedy has also worked as a ship chandler and a drugstore clerk. A collector by nature, his favorite hobbies besides treasure-hunting are bottle collecting and mineralogy.
The author has done extensive research on buried and sunken treasure locales. Working on information furnished by Mr. Kennedy, scuba divers located three brass Revolutionary War cannons just off Portland Head light. Mr. Kennedy has personally located old coins, an Indian axe circa 1640, and other valuable artifacts, often traveling as far from Portland as Key West, Florida. On his days off or on his vacations, the author can usually be found with his trusty metal detector scouting for more treasure.
Mr. Kennedy is married, with no children.