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Westport Island History Committee

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… carriages on rough, bumpy, steep buckboard roads. Village life centered around Somesville and Southwest Harbor."

Lincoln, Maine - Ira Fish

"He used the house as a boarding house for men working at the sawmill and working in lumbering. This house became known as the Springer House."

Lincoln, Maine - Thomas S. Libby

"Libby’s house on Transalpine Road. The house was built in 1840 by Chandler Bruce. Thomas had a house that had enough room to have two families in it…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - John Crosby

"… corner of Elm Street where it meets the Main Road in Hampden. The gristmill and the sawmill that Benjamin Wheeler built on the Souadabscook Stream…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Emerson Letter

"The siege of Richmond has commenced. We arrived here Sunday noon after a march of six miles, and went right to work felling trees and making rifle…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… he died in 1880, Thomas Lord summed up his life work: “Have worked on 83 vessels more or less – 84 dwelling houses, 12 school houses, 14 meeting…"

Lincoln, Maine - Frederick A. Edwards

"Edwards was born in 1836 on a farm on Transalpine Road. He entered the military on August 21, 1862, at the age of 25. Mr."

Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"… tracks is a bit of track on the side of the road. It is used for boxcars that are waiting to be loaded."

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… the Blue Hill Fair! E.B White lived just down the road in Brooklin. Even today, E.B. White’s classic story is honored by a Charlotte's Web Tent…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… tough to get between villages before vehicles and roads were constructed. After settling happened between the different rivers and streams, people…"

Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"… river from Lincoln to Chester (like the Access Road bridge) is much larger and holds much more weight, such as big trucks and car carriers, woods…"

Lincoln, Maine - Jeremy Nelson

"He bought two lots on the present-day Military Road. In the winters of 1824-1826, Jeremy taught the first school in the area."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… is located in the West Village on the Wire Bridge Road, in a quiet country setting where people can picnic and enjoy the cold water of the…"

Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Interviews - Page 2 of 2

"… near your house with the trees, buildings, and roads? A: It was pretty incredible that roads were blocked off with trees that had fallen over."

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… village was the geographic center with a state road running through its center featuring a town hall, grange hall, two stores, churches, a…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… and its three stories still stand tall on Harbor Road. It was also used for dances, social gatherings, and this hall hosted the annual eighth grade…"

Guilford, Maine - Modern History: 1966 to Present

"… Treasurer duties for neighboring Willimantic, and road work was undertaken in the replacement of 26 culverts."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"… of Route 4 North (Main Street) and Box Shop Hill Road. His home is one of many that was built prior to 1800 and still stands as a testament to the…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History

"… Ledge” near the coast (at the corner of Gilman Road and Route 88 in present day Yarmouth). Rev. Loring’s sons Thomas, Levi, and Jeremiah purchased…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… Marston-Lawrence homestead still stands on North Road in North Yarmouth overlooking a small oxbow on the Royal River."

Blue Hill, Maine - In Search of the Rustic Life

"… fourteen-mile coach or carriage drive over rough roads to get from the train depot in Ellsworth to Blue Hill."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"… in the mid to late 1800s—with new homes, better roads, and increased travel—made Swan’s Island a profitable enough location to gain a steamboat…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 5 of 6

"… work on building the islands network of carriage roads. He saw in JDR, Jr., a kindred spirit who not only loved the natural, wild parts of the…"