The Israel Andrews Hotel about 1900 From at least the early 1870s until March 3, 1989, a large wooden building occupied the riverside corner of Whitney and Main Streets in Calais. The building was originally a part of J.A. Murchie’s … Continue reading
Note: This piece was written by Harry Edgar “Ned” Lamb (b. October 10, 1874), founding member of the SCHS and noted local historian/journalist. It was published in The Calais Advertiser. The first road in Calais from Milltown was down what … Continue reading
1883 saw perhaps Calais’s most notorious murder when Herbert Eaton, ne’er-do-well heir to one of the Eaton family’s lumbering fortunes, shot his brother and business partner Joseph and a friend Samuel Kelley for no reason other than he was apparently … Continue reading
Joe Nicholas 1974 Joseph Nicholas of Pleasant Point is shown above entertaining Bernice MacDougall’s kindergarten class at Thanksgiving 1974. Tribal Representative in the Augusta, holder of nearly every important tribal office locally and noted humorist and raconteur, Joe was a … Continue reading
Airline Road Aurora 1936 Airline Road Breakneck Hill near Wesley very early Today a drive over the Airline is a breeze, the road is entirely paved, near switchbacks and 90 degree turns have been removed and there are long passing … Continue reading
The below text is from an article written for the Calais Advertiser in 1960 by Carol Obliskey who most of us know as Carol Ann Nicholson. We have added photos of the businesses she describes. Not all are 1960 but … Continue reading
prohibition According to St. Stephen historian Doug Dougherty, in the early 1890s the illicit entry of liquor into Calais from St. Stephen and the flow of kerosene in the opposite direction prompted someone to write a song called “Song of … Continue reading
Calais’ first girls basketball team 1926 It’s tourney time again in Bangor (originally written February 21, 2022) and tomorrow morning the Calais Girls begin their quest for another Gold Ball at the Cross Center. If they bring home the gold … Continue reading
The St. Croix Valley has rarely merited much mention in the national press over the last couple of hundred years with a few notable exceptions. The War of 1812, which saw the Brits occupy Eastport, was one of these and … Continue reading
Early painting of Passamaquoddy Bay We don’t, of course, have any photos of Downeast Maine from 200 years ago; but there is the above painting of Passamaquoddy Bay which represents an artist’s conception of the bay some years later. Eastport can … Continue reading