Benedict Arnold’s warehouse and fish stores on Campobello Eastport Sentinel 1854 “The old wooden fish-stores that Benedict Arnold built at Campobello (on the English side), just opposite Lubec (on the American side) at the time when he was carrying on … Continue reading
The village of Pembroke, probably late 1800s In the late 1800s Pembroke was a bustling and prosperous community of nearly 2500. The above photo shows the town center about 1890. From the 1850s until the mid 1880s Pembroke Iron Works … Continue reading
Bands of gypsies or tribes as they are sometimes called began to arrive in Maine and probably Downeast just after the Civil War if not earlier. Being wanderers they never settled permanently in one place but during their migrations we … Continue reading
Americans felt pretty good about themselves in 1913. The economy was stable, Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated for his first term and even the institution of the income tax which had been strongly opposed by the wealthy enjoyed the general support … Continue reading
Township 19 ED and Cooper Round Lake bottom left A few miles to the south of Love Lake which is partly in Crawford but mainly in Township 19 ED there is a small, rather nondescript lake called Round Lake. On … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago we circulated a copy of the obituary of Dick Stacey, the former owner of The Stable Inn, now the Calais Motor Inn. Stacey made a brief but spectacular appearance on the local scene when he … Continue reading
Louis “Louie” Morrison Birth Certificate Louis Leroy Morrison was born at the Chipman Hospital in St. Stephen on November 17, 1921. The record of his birth was not filed with the Clerk of the City of Calais until six years … Continue reading
Mike Foggia (far right) with other Italian workers in 1906 Some old photos contain a lot of history, often history we have forgotten over the years. Above is one of them. It was provided by Mike Foggia whose grandfather, also … Continue reading
If you happen to be driving on Route 39 through Salineville Ohio you might notice the above marker which claims that the northernmost engagement of the Civil War, Morgan’s Raid, occurred at this site. This is not technically correct and, … Continue reading
Ancestry.Com has recently added hundreds of national newspapers, some as early as 1820, to its site. This allows us to research the Bangor Daily News, the Bangor Whig and Courier and national newspapers for articles and other items of interest … Continue reading