Maine Memory Network

Westport Island History Committee

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"Objecting to the toll, stagecoach operator Josiah Paine avoided the marsh by creating at his own expense a direct route from Dunstan to Stroudwater."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"It was a terrible toll, one that had to have caused great sadness and grief among those remaining in Surry."