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Calais, Maine

History of the Calais Area

Annie Adam's Dry Goods Store, Calais, late teens to early 1920s. Annie is the dark haired woman in the dark clothes. (Thanks to Linda Stufflebean for the photo.)

Annuals of Calais Maine & St. Stephen New Brunswick, early history of area (external link) 

Baseline Road Across Blueberry Barrens - Thanks, Ken Strout 
Baseline Road Article BDN - Thanks Jack Gray

Calais Does Its Part to Stop War Between England and the U.S.

Calais Memorial High School (pictures & architectural drawings) Page 12345
Thanks to Larry Johnson '69 for providing the pictures. They came out of an old architectural magazine. The pictures are large files and may take time to load, but the memories are well worth the wait. 

Calais Observatory 

Abstract of Astronomic Work in Maine 
Article The Downeast Times 070505
Astronomical Transit Stone  
Coast Mappers  062505
Drawing the Line - Edwin Danson & Harold Nelson
1888 Longitude Connection Diagram via Telegraph  (photo provided by Harold Nelson)
Epping Net Diagram  
June 19, 2005 Update 
Longitude Determination  
Longitude Network 1897  
Machias Telegraph, 1905 Article 
Microwaves in Maine 
MIT Camp East Machias 
Nelson Receives Recognition (external link) 
NOAA Commemorates Heritage (external link) 
NOAA Commemorative Disk  
Powder House in Calais?  
Radio Telephone Service - Geodetic Surveying 012905 
Rebuilding the Chimney, article by Harold Nelson in POS Magazine 120405 issue (external link)  
Remarks of Senator Kevin Raye at the Dedication 070205  
The "Rock" 081803 
Waikiki Observatory
William Bryone Jacks
Zenith Telescope

Calais Railroad Employees Getting Ready to Take RR Rules Exam - 1970 - Thanks Ken Strout

Calais Statistics and Demographics (external link)

Calais Women's Temperance Society Picnic Circa 1890. (Thanks to Linda Stufflebean for the photo.)

Cherryfield Academy 1941

Cherryfield Flood 1942  

Civil War Attack at Calais (external link)

Downeast Tall Tales & Stories  

Electric Telegraph, A Novel Meeting (external link)

Find a Grave, Washington Co. (external link)

First Acadian Settlement (external link)

Geology of Cobscook Bay State Park (external link)

Half Way Markers 

Historic USGS Maps (external link)

History of....Ray's Place has a large variety of historical information for  New England including Maine town histories 

History of Alexander 1886 Gazetteer
History of Calais 1886 Gazetteer
History of Dennysville 1886 Gazetteer
History of Edmunds 1886 Gazetteer
History of Pembroke 1886 Gazetteer
History of Perry 1886 Gazetteer 
History of Princeton 1886 Gazetteer 
History of Robbinston 1886 Gazetteer 

History of Calais Schools   03/24/06

Importance of the Coastal Survey Page 1 Page 2  1851 081905 - Thank you, Harold Nelson

Irving Fire in Eastport February 5, 2008

Maine Historical Society (external link)

Maine Memory Network (external link)

National Register of Historical Places (external link) 

Notables

John Judson Ames (external link) 072404 
Joseph Young Bergen (external link) 012007
Robert Thaxter Edes (external link) 012007
Ebenezer Fisher (external link) 111207
Otis Tuft Mason (external link) 012007 
Nahum Mitchell (external link) 101207
Harold H. Murphy (external link) 012007
Charles Alexander Nelson (external link) 012007
James Shepherd Pike (external link) 012007
Mary Newlnareh Prescott (external link) 012007 
Henry Prince (external link) 012007
Harriet Prescott Spofford (external link) 012007     
George Bruce Upton (external link) 012007
Wilder's (external link) 111207
Horatio Nelson Young 070304

  Passamaquoddy Tribe of Maine (external link) 

Pictures from the Past - Scenes of the Calais Area 

Pictures from the Past II - Thank you, Heather Ross

Pictures from the Past III - Thank you, Heather Ross

Pictures from the Past IIII - Columbia Falls - Thank you Ken Strout 

Pictures from the Past V - Thank you, George Jones 

The Political Graveyard, Washington Co. (external link)

Red Beach Granite (external link)

St. Croix Historical Society (external link)

St. Croix River from behind RR Station - 1960 - Thank you Ken Strout 

St. Croix Watershed (external link) 

Stagecoach Maine (external link) 

State Road Built by Calais 1905 122106 - Thank you, Harold Nelson - Baring Road; the three houses on the left are still there. Thanks to all who replied with the location.

Triangulation in the Portland Area 081905 - Thank you, Harold Nelson

UT Library Maine Maps Online (external link) 

Washington County, Maine, Patents   

 

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