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Phillips is a town in Franklin County, Maine, United States. The population was 898 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is home to the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad , a heritage railroad .
The Maine Woods Office, now the Phillips Community Building, is a historic commercial and community building on Main Street in Phillips, Maine.Built in 1848 by a local lawyer, it is regionally significant as a rare example of commercial Gothic Revival architecture, and as the original home of the Maine Woods newspaper, which disseminated news about sporting and hunting in Maine to an ...
The Union Church, now Phillips Congregational Church, is a historic church on Main and Pleasant Streets in Phillips, Maine. Built in 1835, this Greek Revival church is the oldest religious building in the small community, and a distinctive local landmark. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
Pages in category "Phillips, Maine" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Maine Central built 37 box cars, 37 flat cars, 3 cabooses and a baggage-RPO car in their Portland Terminal Company shops for the SR&RL between 1912 and 1917. [5] SR&RL locomotives 15, 16, 17 and 18 were reboilered in the Maine Central Waterville shops during the same period, and a 4-mile (6.4 km) freight branch was built from Perham Junction to ...
Phillips and Rangeley Railroad ordered the first 28-foot (8.5 m) cars in 1890 and the subsidiary Eustis Railroad ordered the first 33-foot (10 m) cars in 1903. [7] The Portland Company locomotive built in 1890 was 12.5% heavier than any previous 2 ft ( 610 mm ) gauge locomotive in Maine. [ 8 ]
The town of Phillips was incorporated in 1812. Captain Joel Whitney arrived with his family sometime between 1806 and 1815, bought 160 acres (65 ha) of land, and soon became a man of local prominence. Lands he owned became part of Phillips village, he operated a saw mill and potash factory, and he served as an early postmaster.
The Sandy River is a 73.3-mile-long (118.0 km) [2] tributary of the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine.. The Sandy River originates in the Sandy River Ponds at an elevation of 1,700 feet (520 m) in Sandy River Plantation