Irish Draught Horses for Sale near Wilton, ME

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Irish Draught Mare
Celtic Promise is a beautiful, purebred, 5- year old, dapple gray, Register..
Augusta, Maine
Gray
Irish Draught
Mare
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Augusta, ME
ME
$17,000
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About Wilton, ME

The land replaced an invalidated 1727 grant by Massachusetts to veterans for service in the French and Indian Wars. The first grant (now part of Manchester, New Hampshire) was originally dubbed Harrytown after a particularly dangerous Native American, then renamed Tyngstown for Captain William Tyng, leader of the expedition of " snowshoe men" that killed him in 1703. Abraham Butterfield, a settler from Wilton, New Hampshire, paid the cost of incorporation in 1803 to have the new town named after his former residence. Wilton is known for being the location of Maine's first cotton mill, started in 1810 by Solomon Adams. In 1876, George Henry Bass (1855–1925) founded G.H.