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  2. Belfast, Maine - Wikipedia

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    Belfast is a city in Waldo County, Maine, United States. As of the 2020 census , the city population was 6,938. [ 2 ] Located at the mouth of the Passagassawakeag River estuary on Belfast Bay and Penobscot Bay .

  3. Belfast Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Belfast Historic District encompasses a large portion of the city center of Belfast, Maine, representing one of Maine's largest concentrations of pre-Civil War architecture, as well as a rich collection of commercial architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  4. Church Street Historic District (Belfast, Maine) - Wikipedia

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    The city of Belfast, located on Penobscot Bay on the central Maine coast, became a major shipping and shipbuilding port after the War of 1812, and diversified economically as the 19th century progressed. Church Street, which extends south from the city's central business district and runs parallel to, but several blocks inland from, the city's ...

  5. Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (1871–2007) - Wikipedia

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    The first attempt to bring a railroad to Belfast, a Penobscot Bay port city that was Waldo County's shire town, came on March 9, 1836, when the Maine Legislature passed "An Act to establish the Belfast and Quebec Railroad Company", but any prospects for financing the project were quickly killed by a provision in the Maine Constitution that prohibited public loans to build railroads and by the ...

  6. The Complex History Behind Belfast —and Its Echoes in ... - AOL

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  7. First Church of Belfast - Wikipedia

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    The First Church of Belfast is a historic church at 8 Court Street in Belfast, Maine. The church congregation was founded in 1796, and its present building was built in 1818. The church congregation was founded in 1796, and its present building was built in 1818.

  8. James P. White House - Wikipedia

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    The James P. White House is a historic house at 1 Church Street in Belfast, Maine. Built in 1840, it is one of the city's most elaborate examples of Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, [1] and is included in Belfast's Church Street Historic District. In recent years it has served as a ...

  9. Belfast Commercial Historic District - Wikipedia

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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 ...