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Pre-1902 view of the Lumber Capital of the World
No full textA view of Bangor featuring the waterfront. This view shows 8 church steeples, with St. John\u27s Catholic being the nearest. The waterfront area shows the sawmills, lumber wharves, store houses, lumber rafts, and piles of lumber awaiting shipment. To the left is the covered bridge from Bangor to Brewer. This bridge was washed out in the freshet of 1902.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangorwaterfront_images/1000/thumbnail.jp
Boston and Bangor Steamship: Season of 1900
Get PDFPamphlet for the Boston and Bangor Steamship Company for 1900. Contains daily schedules, rates for transport, diagrams of the ship, a map of routes for the steamship, and more.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1248/thumbnail.jp
The Worst Atheism: An Address Delivered in the Unitarian Church, Houlton, Maine, October 14, 1900, by G.E. MacIlwaine, Minister in the Church
Get PDFTo say of a man that. he is or was an atheist is the worst thing that organized religion can say about a man. Perhaps the man was a good man. Perhaps he was, so far as usefulness goes, the most useful man in the community. Perhaps he filled all the functions of a man in home, in society, everywhere. But he was an atheist.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1280/thumbnail.jp
In the Maine Woods: 1900 Edition
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A circle drawn on the map of Maine with Mt. Katahdin for its center, and 100 miles from edge to edge, embraces the richest field for the sportsman in the United States.
Nowhere else is there such satisfactory hunting for big game, in territory so easily reached. The area of northern Maine, above a line drawn across the state from Bangor, is greater than that of the states of Vermont and New Hampshire combined. Aroostook County alone is nearly as large as the state of Massachusetts, having an area of 6,800 square miles, or 500 square miles more than the state of Connecticut. Piscataquis County, the smallest of the three counties forming the greater part of northern Maine, has an area of 3,780 square miles, or 500 square miles more than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/railroad_pubs/1023/thumbnail.jp
Lover\u27s leap: an old Indian legend relative to Lover\u27s Leap, located on the banks of Kenduskeag stream opposite the present site of the Maxfield Plant
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Forest management in Maine
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We must next observe that a large part of the State of Maine is destined to remain permanently wooded. The bulk of our population is now and will continue to be located in the lower southern part, where milder climate, abundant water power and areas-of fertile soil offer advantages. Again, there is a strip of land with easy topography and very fertile soil along the New Brunswick line in Aroostook County. Out of these areas indeed a large proportion is wooded, and some bodies of land included within them are of such a character that they never will be inhabited or cultivated. For the great district remaining, about half the area of the State, the same thing is true. It is high in the first place, and the season of growth is short. As a rule the topography is rough. and the soil poor. Considerable of it, indeed, is little more than ledges and piled up rocks.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1038/thumbnail.jp
1899 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
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Bangor House Coach Stable, 215-221 Main Street, Bangor, Maine, circa 1895-1909
No full textBangor House Coach Stable, operated by Albert Wheelden, located at 215 to 221 Main Street, Bangor, Maine. Sanborn insurance maps and Bangor city directories indicate Wheelden operated the stables as early as 1895.
The 1899 Bangor city directory advertises the stable as stylish conveyances of every description supplied for Parties, Business, or Pleasure Driving.
In December 1909 a terrible fire destroyed the stable. A history of this fire was written by Wayne E. Reilly of the Bangor Daily News in 2009. This informative, and sad, story can be found by a simple Google search.
The church steeple was St. Mary\u27s Roman Catholic Church on Cedar Street, across from Davenport Park.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1182/thumbnail.jp
The City of Bangor: The Industries, Resources, Attractions and Business Life of Bangor and Its Environs
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During the twenty-seven years the Bangor Board of Trade has been in existence there have been brought out under its auspices several publications setting forth industries and resources of Bangor, a city universally recognized as the business centre of Eastern Maine, and rapidly becoming to the front as a metropolis of the Northeast.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1267/thumbnail.jp
Central Street, Bangor, Maine, in 1899
No full textLooking up Central Street towards the Unitarian Church on Park Street in 1899.
Bangor Steam Dye House at 71 Central -- Edgar S. Baker proprietor
[Not visible but known] Grand Central Stables at 88 Central -- Lemuel Nichols proprietor
Notice there are electrical street lights and rails for the street railway
Norumbega Hall sits on the left hand sidehttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1253/thumbnail.jp