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Aberdeen's Baltic Adventure |
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Sir Robert Skene also prospered from the Danzig-Aberdeen timber trading route and returned to pump his own money into Wester Fintray on the north-western outskirts of the city, as well as city centre property and the Rubislaw Estate, which latterly gave the region its economic feet as the world's largest granite quarry. His city townhouse in Guestrow, Aberdeen, still stands today as Provost Skene's House, and is a small museum devoted to the archaeology and design of his generation.
However the returning traders were not the only benefactors of the city - itinerant workers who had gone on to settle in the Baltic region also generously donated funds towards their home town's new University, as noted in 1682 by the then Principal, Robert Paterson. The building work of the University was achieved slowly, but would not have happened at all but for "generous and charitable countrymen within the cities of Danzig, Konningsberg and the Kingdom of Poland."
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