Enoch Cobb Wines

Wines visited Lerna from the USS Constellation in May 1831 and described Myloi as a little group of mud huts thatched with reeds.

Also written: Ένοχ Κομπ Γουάινς, E. C. Wines

Events

1. 30 May 1831

   American sailors find 'a little collection of huts'

   Officers of the American frigate USS Constellation visited Lerna. Enoch Wines wrote that the water from the spring was led away in a canal and turned a few mills, which gave the name Mylos to a little group of huts built…

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2. 4 June 1831

   A boat of USS Boston capsizes on the way back from Lerna

   A few days after the visit of the Constellation's officers, a boat from the American sloop USS Boston capsized in the gulf on its way back from Lerna.

   ProvenTravellersHarbour and pier