By the 1880s the handful of competing oyster companies began consolidating into a single monopoly.

Either the digging or the filling-in of the oyster company's fishpools created soft, unstable land.

Hampton Terrace was built for the oyster company's workers in 1866, and it later became part of Herncliffe Gardens which no longer exists.

Inhabited initially as an oyster company's base of operations.

During those years Blount continued to design jewellery, worked for his grandfather's oyster company, and was also a mill machinist and plant engineer.

The oyster companies and the slaughter houses made an attempt to refuse to sell oysters and meat to union restaurants.

Upon this the oyster companies and slaughter houses acknowledged themselves beaten and peace reigned.

One million seeds will be sold to other commercial oyster companies.

Mr. Reeves, who bought the oyster company in 1985, said he had tried a number of measures to reattract local labor to the oyster-picking business.

The largest oyster company in the state, Tallmadge Brothers, supplied the boats and labor to spread the shell.