Dorchester Illustration no. 2494 Capt. Peter Strickland
Image: 102 Neponset Avenue, home of Capt. Peter Strickland, now demolished.
This blog post came to our attention:
Capt. Peter Strickland, 1837-1921. Philatelic Covers of the 1st U.S. Consul to Senegal to Mark the Centennial.
“For a quarter of a century–from 1880 to 1905–shipmaster Peter Strickland lived on Goree Island in Senegal while toiling in the merchant marine. He brought leaf tobacco from Kentucky and Tennessee to West Africa, and on return trips, filled the cargo bay of schooners with goat hides, peanuts and palm kernels. … The family moved to Dorchester, Massachusetts, to be near the busy port of Boston.”
check out the announcement: