Photograph of Kimball Bent of Eastport Excerpt from Monday’s Warriors by New Zealand author Maurice Shadbolt, 1992: Between one luckless general and the next there is a fleck of fable in history’s eye called Kimball Bent. What … Continue reading
1500 people watched the hanging of Ebenezer Ball of Robbinston in 1811 “Ball was veiled and conducted upon a scaffold, with a rope hitched to a hook over his head. The sheriff gave him a cloth and told him to … Continue reading
By Jerry LaPointe [See Dr. Swan House, part 1] In 1908, when Dr. Swan died, Minerva Swan’s son, Ralph Horton, and his growing family lived in the house across the street which had been built for him and his bride … Continue reading
By Jerry LaPointe During the last half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, Calais was graced with many beautiful homes. Many of the largest and most architecturally significant of these stood along Main Street extending … Continue reading
Main Street Calais about 1900 North Street to right, St. Croix Hotel to left The St. Croix Valley 100 years ago was a far different place than it is today. Calais, St. Stephen, Eastport and all the outlying communities had … Continue reading
Postcard circa 1920 We have had inquiries recently with questions about Milltown- is it part of Calais or a separate town, did it ever have its own government, police department, etc. and where does Calais end and Milltown begin? We … Continue reading
In days past Calais and St. Stephen was truly one community—everyone had close friends and/or relatives across the border which was crossed by the three bridges over the river shown above. Until the mid-‘50s the bridge at Ferry Point was … Continue reading
Calais Hospital Groundbreaking 1953 Tommy back row third from the left From the early 1930s until his death in a plane crash in 1973 Thomas DiCenzo was one of the most accomplished and successful businessmen in Calais history. Locally few … Continue reading
In an earlier article we covered a 1895 “Letter From Maine” written by HMT, no other identifying information, which described for the folks in his hometown of Shepherdstown West Virginia HMT’s trip from Shepherdstown West Virginia to Calais and his … Continue reading
Shepherdstown West Virginia 1800s Shepherdstown is a small town in West Virginia on the Potomac. Said to be the oldest incorporated town in West Virginia it was established in 1762 and in 1895 had a population of 1300. Today it … Continue reading