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Maine Streets

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Main Street, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910

Main Street, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910

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During the 1890s, Main Street developed as Northeast Harbor’s commercial center in response to the summer colony’s need for a variety of goods and services.

By the early 1900s, attractive business blocks lined the street, including, from left, the Small, Staples & Company drugstore, Smith’s Dry Goods, the brick Joy Block of 1901, the Post Office and Kimball’s Grocery Store of 1897.