Stonington, ME Shirts

Granite built Stonington, and lobster keeps it. The quarries on the islands off the harbor once cut a pink-toned stone prized enough to end up in the approaches to the Brooklyn Bridge, and stonecutters came from across the ocean to work it; one island quarry is cutting still. When the stone trade faded, the fleet took over and never let up: year after year, Stonington lands more lobster value than any other port in Maine. This is a village where the wharf parking fills before dawn and the harbor is the whole economy, stem to stern. Our Stonington design sets the two trades in one frame: a lobster boat steaming past ledges of pink granite, traps stacked on the wharf, the islands low in the distance. It is a shirt that smells faintly of bait if you look at it right, and we mean that as the highest compliment. As Stonington businesses join ShirtMap, they will surface on this page like buoys after a fog.