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In the 2014 Belfast City Council election this district elected five Sinn Féin councillors, as well as one councillor each for the SDLP and People Before Profit. In the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, the area was a major centre of civil disturbances during the social-political conflict known as The Troubles. A large British army fort – known as ...
The area extending from this point northward along Main Street contains a concentration of the city's finest late 19th-century commercial architecture, which is separately listed on the National Register as the Belfast Commercial Historic District, and includes as prominent landmarks the Belfast National Bank building and the former Masonic ...
The Belfast rail yard in 1875; MEC-built station house c. 1880. A county-wide connection to the main line of the Maine Central Railroad at Burnham, 33 miles (53 km) inland from Belfast, was established by the largely city-owned Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad with its opening in 1871. For the first 55 years the line was operated under lease ...
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The Belfast Commercial Historic District encompasses two blocks of the central business district of Belfast, Maine. This area includes the best-preserved and most architecturally interesting commercial buildings of the city's mid-to-late 19th century development, when it was the leading port on Penobscot Bay. It extends along Main Street from ...
Waldo County is a county in the state of Maine, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,607. [1] Its county seat is Belfast. [2] The county was founded on February 7, 1827, from a portion of Hancock County and named after Brigadier-General Samuel Waldo, proprietor of the Waldo Patent.
ZIP code: 04952. Area code: 207: FIPS code: 23-04125: ... Belfast on the east, Northport on the southeast, Lincolnville on the south and Searsmont on the west ...
Searsport was settled in the 1760s and incorporated on February 13, 1845, from portions of Prospect and Belfast.In 1747, when fire destroyed the Province House in Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport, which was part of the Waldo Patent he had purchased about 1720. [4]