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Bath, its commercial center located downriver a few miles, was economically more important, and in the 1870s a steam ferry began operating there, reducing the importance of Days Ferry. [2] The Days Ferry village is centered at the junction of River Road (Maine State Route 128) and the Old Stage Road. There is a cluster of residences near this ...
The John G. Coburn Farm is a historic farmstead at 434 Carthage Road (Maine State Route 142) in Carthage, Maine. The farmhouse, a two-story brick structure built in 1824, stands on the west side of the road just north of its crossing of the Webb River. The house is regionally distinctive as the only brick building in the Webb River valley.
The Peabody-Fitch property is located in southern Bridgton, on a rise known locally as Fitch Hill on the south side of Ingalls Road, west of Maine State Route 107.The farmstead is set amid former agricultural fields and woods, which contain landscaped evidence of the property's former use, including stone walls, fences, and former roadways.
Malaga Island Memorial, Webber Cemetery. Opening in 1908, the Maine School for the Feeble-Minded was an institution that housed people who were considered mentally unfit by the standards of that day; [2] [3] [4] however, during its early years, the State also placed orphans and other wards of the state at the Maine School, as no other public services existed to help them.
Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment (formerly Wolfe's Neck Farm) [2] is a sustainable coastal farm in Freeport, Maine, United States. Located at 184 Burnett Road, the farm was established in 1959 by Philadelphia natives Eleanor Houston Smith (1910–1987) [ 3 ] and Lawrence Smith (1902–1975).
Hardscrabble Farm is a historic farm property in rural Searsmont, Maine, United States. Located south of its village center at 122 Maine State Route 131 , the 70-acre (28 ha) property features a typical New England connected farmstead with a c. 1840s Greek Revival farmhouse.
In Maine, the minimum wage will increase to $14.65, rising 50 cents. ... The rise comes due to Maine law and a a 2016 citizens referendum, with the state required to make an annual adjustment ...
The Paul Family Farm is located at the southern corner of Depot Road and Goodwin Road (Maine State Route 101), in a rural area northeast of the Eliot village center.The main house is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, five bays wide, with a side-gable roof, central chimney, and clapboard siding.