Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
Parker Head was growing by the mid-1850s. In time there were stores, a church, a post office, sawmills, and an ice harvesting business. In the early 1900s there was also a gas station and telephone exchange.
A fire in 1917 destroyeded several Parker Head businesses and homes. Among them were George Duley’s store and Lizzie Harrington’s boarding house, visible in the center, and Ed Wyman’s home. In the foreground was the Grinlowe house, owned by Percy Young, that burned in the 1930s.
The village of Parker Head in 1889 purchased a piece of fire equipment from the City of
Waterville for $100. It was most likely used in the 1917 fire. In 1928 that equipment
was sold for $25.00. The hand tub fire engine was called Veteran #2.
About This Item
- Title: Parker Head, Phippsburg, ca. 1910
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1910
- Subject Date: circa 1910
- Location: Parker Head, Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2008.19.116692
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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