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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 received orders at Rochester to take a siding at Waterboro. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Train 339 arrived and slowed for the head brakeman to run ahead and throw the switch for the passing siding, then began slowly to pull through the switch. While it was still in process, Extra 662 rounded the curve North of town and bore down on the station, slowing for the meet. Engineer Woodbury in the front engine #257 saw a green light ahead which he took for the switch light indicting the line was clear. He opened the throttle of 257 and engineer Daniels in 662, hearing the exhaust quicken, opened his own throttle. Seconds later Woodbury could see that the line was NOT clear and throwing the brakes in emergency, or "dumping the air" and giving a blast of the whistle, he jumped for his life. Daniels did the same and both engineers, though injured, survived. The two firemen and the head brakeman were not as fortunate for they had no opportunity to jump and were crushed beyond recognition in the wreckage. They were: Fireman I.A. Hutchinson, 45 Portland,; Fireman Richard A. Proctor, 23, Nashua; Brakeman Alfred A. Jeanotte, 21, Nashua. This crash and loss of life took place on Waterboro Rd. (Depot St.) just East of Holmes Rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/7b1bcbbc-6ba7-4587-a095-d9d5f3e83c4f/sowaterboro.jpg Photo Gallery South Waterboro approximately 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/8ed20a06-eaa4-4acc-8afc-9ab41a3aa8d7/postcard.jpg Photo Gallery Postcard of Little Ossipee, 1922 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/b9e5315e-1745-40e3-af88-659cfd81e436/mainsteastrt202.jpg Photo Gallery Main St. East Waterboro looking towards the intersection with Rt 202 Approximately 1916 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/93a8e5e1-9b0a-4e32-bca7-9a71180f01a7/chadbournescamp.jpg Photo Gallery Chadbournes Camp, Little Ossipee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/b94cfcf9-74b2-4e06-834e-f0a8448c64fd/littleossipee.jpg Photo Gallery View from Little Ossipee Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/a54b86f6-9513-482e-9e66-d9957d64c04e/clarkstore.jpg Photo Gallery E.A. 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The building in the middle is no longer there and the building on the left currently houses Main Street Auto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/64206ee9-4e51-4cbc-8584-055665458cc3/sowatermainst.jpg Photo Gallery 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 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/fc6cbca9-1a84-4549-a282-6af47364f607/tannery2.jpg Photo Gallery The leather tannery burned by the ‘47 Fire and later rebuilt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/fa9d64ac-4403-4001-8687-35ecb61f89e8/tannery.jpg Photo Gallery The leather tannery burned by the ‘47 Fire and later rebuilt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/0719310e-75cb-420b-8674-fcae7b77521a/rt5north.jpg Photo Gallery ROUTE 5 looking North https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/ded9b07f-eab3-47d8-adb5-8243ce47fac9/sayward.jpg Photo Gallery Sayward property- Roberts Ridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/c162e935-9b3f-4a41-b074-a59cdcc7e9d8/swett.jpg Photo Gallery Swett Farm and Hotel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/da710d73-d62d-494f-9e28-e0bb0d5c849b/oldcornerchurch.jpg Photo Gallery Waterborough Old Corner Church (still standing at the corner of West Rd and Federal St) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/327149a3-ce3d-4410-ae64-42ea7f29c472/fay.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/8a42c5d5-0250-4c3f-882f-91dcd0e4b229/boating.jpg Photo Gallery Boating on Little Ossipee Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/0330c849-2c35-4cb3-8fea-7908532506e3/depotstt.jpg Photo Gallery Depot Street, Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/6aa70c96-b2e2-4848-a458-5d38b4c618f0/mainstroof.jpg Photo Gallery Main Street, East Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/2bdf838e-d824-4e6b-badc-fee3d4ae42e0/mainsteast.jpg Photo Gallery Main Street, East Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/58da2026-0c36-4d83-af0a-ab635f7bf3d6/postoffice.jpg Photo Gallery Store and Post Office, East Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/559037ed-aaa4-4815-8a0d-2db6af09ab0e/ebaptistchurch.jpg Photo Gallery East Waterboro Baptist Church https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/c108e698-2353-4804-9822-b62299646193/boxmillingco.jpg Photo Gallery Waterboro Box and Milling Company (also known as Waterboro Box Shop) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/86600b68-2f88-447b-9d4c-08646ac59259/waterborodepot.jpg Photo Gallery South Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/75ed8b6b-32bb-4b1e-89d5-cc3c3a410907/depotstwest.jpg Photo Gallery Depot St. looking West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/b85bccf1-d201-4422-a0f6-20aea67f4ad7/smithvarneytibbetts.jpg Photo Gallery Smith, Varney, Tibbetts residence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/3014f12a-28af-478b-a740-d03e8ef6e3ae/hotelenterprise.jpg Photo Gallery 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) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/1a81fc13-7b76-469a-9c9b-d50296310011/MainStreetNorth.jpg Photo Gallery Main Street looking toward the north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/4f52bad4-b38d-41a2-a4df-1e4968852586/mainstreetsouth.jpg Photo Gallery Main Street in Waterboro looking South https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/991803a1-0aed-4b84-a785-c772326503f2/westcottstation.jpg Photo Gallery Westcott Station, East Waterboro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/b8e8ec49-38b7-43dc-af06-a81573d5e260/CampLaughingLoon.jpg Photo Gallery Camp Laughing Loon on Laughing Loon Lane, Little Ossipee Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/2d8a4d1c-ee16-4281-ae6a-b9940db0ac2f/PearlStreet.jpg Photo Gallery Looking down Pearl Street from Goodwin’s Mills Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/0b0e767a-1626-4c1a-918c-ec9810d537aa/BrownsCottages.jpg Photo Gallery Brown’s Cottages, later Landry’s Cottages, now a private residence at the boat launch on Route 5. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/8692e3c7-c602-4fc7-929d-9b99b4701a79/marshcoffinsstore.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/113d9345-6e99-456d-9865-3ea1cd5c8bf8/dollargeneralcorner.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/365e9310-2d9c-4166-ae5a-b1c4cea726c6/store.jpg Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/231b4d1c-350e-43e4-906f-b7a86a6041ed/chasestorecorner.jpg Photo Gallery 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 Pythias Hall (first place used as high school). On the right is the North Waterboro school which is now the Good Neighbor. It has been turned and more windows have been added. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/9e5bd093-2287-4cc7-9bc1-d2ced8600a13/hockamockskiclub.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/478b54f4-fd64-4683-afb0-8a4f9d30fd86/storesouthwaterboro.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/c5863a30-7f1b-4b59-b0b8-cb2fe3dd80ad/graincompany.jpg Photo Gallery Grain Company in South Waterboro—some of it still remains on Holmes Rd https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/d9a35d0c-0d71-4f2c-9cbe-78cc2b62bf44/jere+carpenter.jpg Photo Gallery Jere Carpenter, later Daney, place was located on the North end of the Middle Rd, around 1900-1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/106b715d-01b4-450e-9bc4-ebc06de292fe/hiramthompsonhouse.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/78ae3937-1461-46d1-a0f9-beadfdd2dbb2/oldblacksmthshop.jpg Photo Gallery Bradeen Blacksmith Shop. Chadbourne Ridge Rd. at the end of the lake by the dam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/f88ed61b-9a70-422d-b0d6-21d37bb287ef/bennethillrd.jpg Photo Gallery Bennett Hill Rd. & Route 5. The only house now left is the first on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/0c4b5814-c863-424b-8902-40938c5b64e3/center.jpg Photo Gallery 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/9113c9f9-1b52-4ef8-8cef-b2709ed8a0c7/northsqaure.jpg Photo Gallery North Waterboro early 1950’s before Route 5 was made wider. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/5a1613b9-bd37-4d83-ade4-4043051b265f/chadborneoutlet.jpg Photo Gallery Outlet looking toward the lake under Chadbourne Ridge Rd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/35565d9c-037e-49de-a826-a6a317238103/VelmaSmithHouse.jpg Photo Gallery House on Pearl St. owned by Velma Smith, burned in 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/5263c348-36ab-4cd8-afdd-ef29d977562c/1915+mill.jpg Photo Gallery 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 water power system from Johnson Stream before upgrading just after the turn of the twentieth century to mechanical power provided by a steam boiler. Although closed since 1963, the mill building, sluiceway, lumber yard and associated bridge, under Route 5, from the stream, retains most of its machinery, including the bandsaw, carriage, edger, joiner, associated belts and massive steam boiler. A wing off the building, known as the file room and dedicated to maintaining the nine inch saw blades, still contains the sharpening equipment and spare blades. The Johnson Mill is also significant as one of the few industrial structures to remain in the town, surviving the 1947 wildfires. The Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill was donated to the Waterborough Historical in 1974 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places for its long association with the lumber manufacturing industry in northern York County in 2007. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/bfffd41b-fe3e-4cbf-add9-d3cf4da3cbee/1950+mill.jpg Photo Gallery Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill in the 1950's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/d88c8f1e-804e-4fef-8d18-453253121de0/now+mill.jpg Photo Gallery Dennis Johnson Lumber Mill Today https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/84162df3-9f86-46ca-b244-4d08a78a59b4/placesgeneralstore.jpg Photo Gallery Place's General Store, Little Ossipee Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/613908b8acc59146c0e2c821/82aa0593-c5a5-40fe-aef7-45c499e3b699/willroberts.jpg Photo Gallery Will Roberts’ house and family. 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