Thurston's Lobster Pound

Established in 1993 and owned by the Radcliffe family, it was a progression of the original F. W. Thurston Company,^[3] started in 1946 by Fred Webster Thurston. Thurston's daughter, Audrey, and her husband, Harvey Moore, became partners in the business two years later.^[4]

Thurston died in 1959, and left his half of the business to his grandson, Lester Radcliffe.^[4]

Harvey died in 1971, at which point Radcliffe purchased the remaining half of the business from his mother. He remained the sole proprietor for the following two decades.^[4]

Michael Radcliffe, Lester's son, and his wife, Elizabeth, purchased F. W. Thurston in 1991. They expanded the business two years later with Thurston's Lobster Pound.^[4]

After thirteen summer seasons, the Radcliffes leased the business to an employee between 2006 and 2012, at which point, with the help of their daughter, Elizabeth, they took control again.^[4]

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