Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"The railroad company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Eastern Railroad, was the first link between Portland and Boston and points south. The train…"

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."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Travel was mainly by foot, horseback, boat or stagecoach until the mid-1800 arrival of trains. In 1842 the Eastern Railroad built a line connecting…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… was built in 1828 across the Sandy River, the stagecoaches replaced those equine mail carriers. As Strong grew, townspeople added churches and…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The main road at that point actually ran under the archway of the barn where stagecoaches stopped and horses were changed from a stable of 15 stalls."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… of travel lanes, where inland roads met stagecoach routes. When railroad lines were established, in later years, villages grew where train depots…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Salesmen, stagecoach passengers, and lumbermen were taken to their destinations on horseback or by carriage."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"It was a stop for the stagecoach and, in addition to the dining room and traveler's rooms, it had a large horse stable."