— The Museum in the Streets —
A brief shipbuilding boom following WWI put the shipyard owned by the Mathews Brothers woodworking mill back in business. The building of the Jennie Flood Kreger, Belfast's largest and only five-masted ship, was overseen by company president Orlando Frost. Frost's eleven-year-old daughter, Katherine, recorded in her diary the events leading up to the festivities of launch day. On Wednesday March 5, 1919 with a large crowd in attendance, Katherine wrote, "All of a sudden we heard a man shout to some of the people getting off the vessel, 'Get off that plank, get off that plank! She's going! She's going!' Sure enough, there was a grinding, creaking noise and we were moving, actually moving!" Shown in this photograph is the steamboat Golden Rod ferrying guests to and from the ship.| HM Number | HM14G8 |
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| Tags | |
| Marker Number | 29 |
| Year Placed | 2004 |
| Placed By | The Belfast Historical Society and Museum, Inc., The City of Belfast, and the Belfast Community |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Sunday, September 7th, 2014 at 5:53am PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 19T E 499916 N 4919215 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 44.42623333, -69.00105000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 44° 25.574', W 69° 0.063' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 44° 25' 34.44" N, 69° 0' 3.78" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Area Code(s) | 207 |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near 31 Front St, Belfast ME 04915, US |
| Alternative Maps | Google Maps, MapQuest, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps, MSR Maps, OpenCycleMap, MyTopo Maps, OpenStreetMap |
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