Wreckage of the 1905 train crash
Wreckage of the 1905 train crash
At 7:25 pm, Nov.25, 1905, Regular freight 339 left Nashua eastbound for Portland. Sometime later, Extra 662, with "helper" 257, left Portland Westbound for Nashua. Its orders included a "meet" with train 339 at South Waterboro and 339 likewise receiv
South Waterboro approximately 1916
Postcard of Little Ossipee, 1922
Main St. East Waterboro looking towards the intersection with Rt 202 Approximately 1916
Chadbournes Camp, Little Ossipee
View from Little Ossipee Lake
E.A. Clark Store, East Waterboro
Louise Bradbury ("Aunt Lou") on the left and George E. Meserve delivering mail. He was a rural carrier in Hollis for 28 years starting in 1904 from horse and buggy. (Louise was the wife of Lewis Bradbury of Hollis.) Information from A History of Holl
Carll General Store and Post Office at the corner of Goodwin’s Mill Rd and Rt. 202 across from the Milkroom. The building in the middle is no longer there and the building on the left currently houses Main Street Auto
South Waterboro at the intersection of Main St (Rt. 202) and West Rd/Goodwin’s Mill Rd (South Waterboro Rd) looking toward East Waterboro. *Approximately 1924
The leather tannery burned by the ‘47 Fire and later rebuilt
The leather tannery burned by the ‘47 Fire and later rebuilt
ROUTE 5 looking North
Sayward property- Roberts Ridge
Swett Farm and Hotel
Waterborough Old Corner Church (still standing at the corner of West Rd and Federal St)
Pictured here on the right is auto mechanic, Victor Fay (brother of late Road Commissioner, Robert Fay and uncle of late Selectman, Bob Fay). They are standing in front of, what is now, Treeline to Shoreline Realty.
Boating on Little Ossipee Lake
Depot Street, Waterboro
Main Street, East Waterboro
Main Street, East Waterboro
Store and Post Office, East Waterboro
East Waterboro Baptist Church
Waterboro Box and Milling Company (also known as Waterboro Box Shop)
South Waterboro
Depot St. looking West
Smith, Varney, Tibbetts residence
Hotel Enerprise on Main St in Waterboro (currently home to Kat’s Fabric Korner, right beside Main Street Automotive and across from South Waterboro Bible Chapel)
Main Street looking toward the north.
Main Street in Waterboro looking South
Westcott Station, East Waterboro
Camp Laughing Loon on Laughing Loon Lane, Little Ossipee Lake
Looking down Pearl Street from Goodwin’s Mills Road.
Brown’s Cottages, later Landry’s Cottages, now a private residence at the boat launch on Route 5.
Marsh Coffin’s store in Waterboro Center. This view is from the old fire station looking east. This is now a home on the corner of Route 5 and Townhouse Road.
This house is at the corner of Rt. 5 and Townhouse Rd, looking west. The big house in background burned and beyond that, barely visible, is the first house on Ossipee Hill Rd.
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This picture was taken from the entrance of the current N. Waterboro Post Office looking south. On the left side is the John Chase Store/Post Office (present house on that corner is now owned by the Roberge family). Beyond that is the Knights of Pyt
The Hockamock Ski Club in 1936. The Portland Ski Club had ski trails on Little Ossipee Mountain in the 1930s, and this building was situated on a ledge just below the summit.
This home and store would have been several houses down from the Rt 202/West Road intersection on the right hand side, heading South. The picture was taken in 1909.
Grain Company in South Waterboro—some of it still remains on Holmes Rd
Jere Carpenter, later Daney, place was located on the North end of the Middle Rd, around 1900-1915.
Hiram Thompson Home built about 1860 for his bride. Still standing on Ossipee Hill Road on the right going south, almost across from Thompson Cemetery.
Bradeen Blacksmith Shop. Chadbourne Ridge Rd. at the end of the lake by the dam.
Bennett Hill Rd. & Route 5. The only house now left is the first on the right.
Waterboro Center before 1900-Taylor House on the left with Ossipee Hill Rd. straight ahead. The house on the right was built by Benjamin Leavitt, later owned by Tibbetts family, and burned before 1900.
North Waterboro early 1950’s before Route 5 was made wider.
Outlet looking toward the lake under Chadbourne Ridge Rd.
House on Pearl St. owned by Velma Smith, burned in 1947
The Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill was an industrial fixture in Waterboro, Maine from around 1860, as a shingle mill, into a full scale lumber mill which was powered by steam in the 1890’s. In 1870 it produced 40,000 pine shingles utilizing a 20 hp wate
Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill in the 1950's
Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill Today
Place's General Store, Little Ossipee Lake
Will Roberts’ house and family. The house was located a little East of the junction of Roberts Ridge Rd. and Town House Rd. (across the road from the cemetery that was vandalized last year). Some of the family is buried in that cemetery.
This store was built after the 1911 fire at the intersection of Route 202 and West Rd. It is now the Waterboro House of Pizza.
Mark Hill house, also known as the Coach House, off Middle Rd., burned in 1947
Depot St looking West in the 1930’s
Intersection of Route 5 and Chadbourne Ridge Road in North Waterboro, 1959.