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Poços das Capelas
This is the village where my father was born and his family is from. It's interesting when we visited all these strangers would approach me and my brothers and tell us stories about my parents, grandparents and even great grandparents, who needs Ancestry.com ? :-)) During the whaling era in the Azores (early to middle 20th Century), Capelas was an important northern processing center on the island of São Miguel; close to the public pools around Poços is the ruins of the mixed-use factory used to process whale oil and mill flour. In Calhau Miúdo there existed two factories (Companhia Nova and Companhia Velha) to process whale byproducts during this period. The steam Winch they used to drag the whales upn the ramp to be processed in the factory, it must of been such a brutal scene :-((
Poços das Capelas
This is the village where my father was born and his family is from. It's interesting when we visited all these strangers would approach me and my brothers and tell us stories about my parents, grandparents and even great grandparents, who needs Ancestry.com ? :-)) During the whaling era in the Azores (early to middle 20th Century), Capelas was an important northern processing center on the island of São Miguel; close to the public pools around Poços is the ruins of the mixed-use factory used to process whale oil and mill flour. In Calhau Miúdo there existed two factories (Companhia Nova and Companhia Velha) to process whale byproducts during this period. The steam Winch they used to drag the whales upn the ramp to be processed in the factory, it must of been such a brutal scene :-((