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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEM_peter-ward-ship-carpenter_Searsport-ME.html
For the better part of the 19th Century Searsport shores were busy with shipbuilding and supporting industries. Close to the yards were steam sheds for bending timbers and planking, blacksmith shops, oakum shops, an iron foundry and a sail loft. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEL_main-street-1875_Searsport-ME.html
When Searsport was incorporated in 1845, Main Street consisted of 2 rows of shops and homes. The first brick building, Leach Block, built in 1834, is in center right of the photograph. To the left of that building is the tall three story structure…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEK_making-a-living_Searsport-ME.html
In the 19th Century, Searsport was a busy prosperous town. Although best known for shipbuilding and its supporting industries, there was a barrel factory, a spool factory and grain and lumber mills. In one block on Main Street there was a dry good…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEI_carver-memorial-library_Searsport-ME.html
Captain George A. Carver was born in 1836. He was, in turn, a ship's carpenter, builder, owner and master. Later Carver helped found a successful New York ship chandlery business.Retiring in 1893, Carver returned to Searsport, living where Moose P…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEG_union-hall_Searsport-ME.html
Local entrepreneur Frank Lane constructed this building in 1860. A Boston architect, George Harding, designed it as a venue for traveling and local theater productions and community receptions. It was also used for basketball in the 1940s and 50s …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVEE_first-day-at-central-school-circa-1900_Searsport-ME.html
"First came the short white undershirt and underpants. Next came the vest with two rows of buttons the first of which held up the underpants, then the white blouse with a large Buster Brown collar tied with a very wide bow. The second row of butto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVED_civil-war-soldiers-monument_Searsport-ME.html
Originally erected in 1870 between Mt. Ephraim and Goodall Streets, this monument displays the names of 18 fallen Searsport men. It was dismantled in 1896 and moved to the current location in front of the new Masonic and Odd Fellows building, wher…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME5J_the-penobscot-expedition_Prospect-ME.html
The largest combined infantry-naval operation undertaken by the American colonists during the Revolution met with disaster along this waterway. Two thousand colonials failed to capture Fort George at Castine with its contingent of 750 British land…