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The City of Bangor Queen City of the East
Get PDFBangor is the easternmost city of its size in the United States. It is distant about 250 miles northeast from Boston, either by land or water, and west from St. John, N. B., a little more than 200 miles. It is reached from western points by both day and night train service from Boston and Portland, over one of the best railway systems of New England, and by a line of first-class passenger steamers making daily trips between Boston and Bangor during the summer months, and from two to four trips weekly the remainder of the year. Three trains daily the year round furnish Eastern connections with St. John, Halifax and all points in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. The train known as the Flying Yankee makes the run between Boston and St. John, upwards of 450 miles, in less than fifteen hours, thus bringing Bangor within eight hours of Boston, and seven hours from St. John. There is also from Boston during the season of summer travel the famous vestibuled train known as the Bar Harbor Limited, which makes exceptionally fast time, is elegantly equipped, and runs via Bangor through to Bar Harbor, Mount Desert. Soon, however, Bangor\u27s facilities for intercourse with the central districts of the country and the Great West will be greatly increased, by the completion of the Canadian Pacific\u27s eastern extension to connections with the railway systems of Maine, thereby securing an outlet to the various important winter ports of Maine and New Brunswick.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1232/thumbnail.jp
Hammond Street Congregational Church, Bangor, Maine, circa 1888-1893
No full textHammond Street Congregational Church at the corner of Hammond and High Streets circa 1888-1893. 1893 would be the latest this photograph was taken based on the absence of Bangor City Hall, which would later be built down the hill from the church, and would have been visible in the bottom left hand corner of this photograph. Another photograph in this collection includes this church and the city hall.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1175/thumbnail.jp
St. John\u27s Catholic Church, 217 York Street, Bangor, Maine
No full textSt. John\u27s Catholic Church at 217 York Street, Bangor, Maine. Date unknown. However, the presence of an electric pole indicates the photograph is no earlier than 1887. Electricity in Bangor came no earlier than 1887.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1177/thumbnail.jp
Eastern Maine and the Rebellion: being an account of the principal local events in eastern Maine during the war
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It has been our endeavor in these pages, to depict the scenes and incidents occuring at home, during the Rebellion, rather than the giving of a minute description of the varied experiences of the thousands, who marched away from Eastern Maine, at their Country\u27s call.
We lay no claim to high literary merit, simply placing before you, in condensed form, the facts; believing that as the memories of the older readers are quickened, and the younger generation learn of the experiences of fathers and mothers, in their efforts to preserve the Union, all will find something of deep interest.
R.H. Stanley / Geo.O. Hallhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1189/thumbnail.jp
Hammond and Central Streets Bangor Maine circa 1887-1895
No full textIntersection of Hammond and Central Streets in Bangor, Maine, circa 1887-1895. Estimate based on businesses shown in photograph cross-referenced with Bangor city directories. Zoom-in reveals a rather astonishing amount of electrical wires above street level.
Under Drugs and Medicines, is H.C Goodenow\u27s Office. Henry C. Goodenow, a lawyer in Bangor, died June 1895. A. (Adolphus) J. Chapman, Attorney and U.S. Claim Agent, who died in 1893, had an office in the same building. Also in this building was Ara Warren\u27s business, an apothecary.
Located in the next block are:
Lyford & Woodward, a hats and furs shop at 33 Hammond Street. Thornton Lyford and Charles E. Woodward, proprietors.
D.M. Howard and Son general insurance agents at 23 Hammond. Daniel M. and George Fred Howard.
Adolf Pfaff, watchmaker and jeweler, at 25 Hammond.
Chapman\u27s Clothing Co. at 51 Hammond. John E. Chapman owner.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1188/thumbnail.jp
1887-88 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
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State and Exchange Street, Bangor Maine circa 1887-1899
No full textEstimate based on presence of overhead electrical poles and wires, not known in Bangor before 1887, and the business at the corner of State Street and Exchange Street, Frank D. Pullen Clothing Company. This location became the site of Bangor\u27s first skyscraper, the Morse-Oliver Building, in 1899.
Businesses include:
Frank D. Pullen Clothing Company, corner of Exchange Street and State Street.
C.B. Wyman, a hardware store at 141 Exchange Street. Charles B. Wyman, proprietor.
The People\u27s One Price Clothing Store at 135 Exchange Street.
Pritchard and Fairbanks, sellers of stoves, tinware, etc. at 133 Exchange Street. William H. Pritchard and Jesse A. Fairbanks, proprietors.
At end of Exchange Street is the Penobscot River. Masts of ships are visible.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_bangor_images/1191/thumbnail.jp
Report of Commissioners appointed under resolve approved March 10, 1887, to investigate condition of settlers in Madawaska Territory
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The work of these commissions and all deeds and conveyances made under their reports, it must he remembered, had reference only to lands on which there were settlers at the date of the treaty, 1842. The settlers who dwelt on these lands were a sturdy, contented race, and not inclined to be migratory. Many of them had large families, and with the rapid increase of population their children, and children\u27si children have come forward to be the heads of families. At first, provision was made for them by a division of the treaty lot owned by the father; but there is a limit to such subdivision, and soon these river or treaty lots were occupied to their full extent. The population then broke over the boundary lines of the treaty lots and the younger generation spread out in nearly every direction. Under laws then existing these settlers could secure title to the wild lands, under certain conditions, by payment therefor in labor on roads.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1139/thumbnail.jp
Address at the Annual Meeting of the Maine Branch of the Women\u27s National Indian Association: Portland, Maine, January 24, 1887
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This meeting is at once the result and the evidence of a deep and abiding interest in the American Indians. Of these, there are now, within the limits of the United States, exclusive of Alaska, about 260,000, a quarter of a million, enough to make seven or eight cities of the size of Portland. They are mainly in our western interior, driven very far back from the Atlantic coast, and being also pressed back from the Pacific coast. Almost infinitesimal are the living fragments that have been broken off from the tribes, and have a place among the whites. Asked to speak of these people, this evening, I consented gladly, but timidly, gladly because of my sympathy with the cause, timidly, because of my lack of any special and intimate knowledge of Indian affairs, and of the Indian question. And when I considered what to say, my mind at once put to me this question, Why, with your merely general knowledge of this matter, do you feel such keen interest, and such readiness to assert it? I began to look around for the reasons and seemed to myself to have found some of them. I have written them out, and decided to bring them here this evening, as my contribution to this feast.
Rev. Dr. George D.B. Pepperhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1087/thumbnail.jp
The Narraguagus Valley : Some Account of its Early Settlement and Settlers
Get PDFA glance at the map of the western part of Washington County will show that any treatment of the early settlement upon the Narraguagus River, necessarily involves more or less of the histories of Steuben, Milbridge, Harrington and Cherryfield.
Steuben was formerly township No. 4, East of Union River, and No. 5 comprised the territory now included in the towns of Milbridge and Harrington. The town of Cherryfield is composed of No. 11, Middle Division, Brigham Purchase, and of the northeastern part of what was formerly Steuben. All that part of Cherryfield lying south of the mills on the first or lower dam was, prior to 1826, a part of Steuben, and was called Narraguagus to distinguish it from the settlement in the southwestern part, which was called Head of the Bay, and the postoffice at Cherryfield was called Narraguagus until within some twenty-five years past. What is now the flourishing town of Milbridge was a part of Harrington until 1848. Harrington (No. 5) was incorporated as a town in 1791, Steuben (No.4) in 1795, Cherryfield (No. 11) in 1816, and the northeast part of Steuben was annexed to Cherryfield in 1826. I find that prior to the incorporation of Harrington, that township and No. 11, Cherryfield, held their plantation meetings and kept their records as one organization. At that time most of the settlers in Harrington lived at Mill River, where the earliest settlement was -made. There was no settlement at what is now Harrington village until several years later.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1077/thumbnail.jp