1926

In August 1926, Commodore Elmer Jared Bliss – a corporation president, grandson of Jared Fisher (an Edgartown whaling master) and a figure in national yachting circles – purchased Osborn’s Wharf at the foot of Main Street. This was once the main whaling wharf of the town, and from it sailed the most famous whaling ships of the village, among them the OCMULGEE and SPLENDID.