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DG: Okay. Now then you came to Nahcotta.

RM: Uh-huh.

DG: So where did you live there, when you first came to Nahcotta?

RM: First came to Nahcotta? We lived in the oyster station.

DG: In Nahcotta also.

RM: That's Nahcotta, yeah.

DG: But that was more on the ground.

RM: Yeah, Nemah is -- Nahcotta is Nemah, yeah.

DG: Oh, it's the same place?

RM: Same place, yeah.

DG: And this oyster station belonged to Johnson MacGowan.

RM: Yeah, right.

DG: So he worked for them for quite a few years, right?

RM: Yeah, for quite a few years. I don't know just how many years, but quite a few years.

DG: So were they a fairly large concern?

RM: Well, not too large, but they had quite a few acres of ground and stuff.

DG: Were they one of the earliest ones around here?

RM: Johnson MacGowan?

DG: Uh-huh.

RM: Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

DG: And you said they got seeds from...

RM: Well, because they were growing eastern oysters at that time and then, until the seeds started coming from Japan.

DG: So now we're talking the '20s, 1920s.

RM: Yeah.

DG: Okay.

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