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Helen's Restaurant is a diner in Machias, Maine, United States. It was established in 1950. [1] It is known for wild Maine blueberry pie. [2] In July 2014, the restaurant burned down. [3] The building was rebuilt and reopened in 2015. [4]
A sash and door factory was added to the mill complex by 1909, [2] and the company was reorganized as the Hammond Lumber Company in 1912. [3] Hammond Lumber Company built an emergency shipyard during World War I, and seven wooden steam-ships were built at Samoa between 1917 and 1919.[14] The 1921-22 Belcher Atlas of Humboldt County breaks down ...
Pope and Talbot came to California in 1849 from East Machias, Maine. Pope & Talbot lumber company was very successful, with the high demand of the 1849 Gold Rush . Andrew Jackson Pope was born on Jan. 6, 1820, in East Machias, Maine, and died on Dec. 18, 1878, in San Francisco.
Built as Hammond Lumber Company #5 for service in Mill City, Oregon; moved to Samoa and renumbered in 1931; sold to Crown Willamette in 1937 [7] 15 Baldwin Locomotive Works: 2-8-2: 1916 originally Humbird Lumber Company #4 of Sandpoint, Idaho; became Hammond Lumber Company #15 in 1941; put on display in Eureka, California's Sequoia Park in 1960 ...
Machias / m ə ˈ tʃ aɪ. ə s / is a town in and the county seat of Washington County in Down East Maine, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census, the town population was 2,060. [3] It is home to the University of Maine at Machias and Machias Valley Airport, a small public airport owned by the town.
Frederic Hovey Talbot (February 26, 1819 - December 20, 1907) was an American businessman, and one of the founders of the Pope & Talbot, Inc. lumber company.. He was born in East Machias, Maine, the son of Peter Talbot III and Eliza Chaloner.
The Talbot House is located on the west side of US 1 in East Machias, just south of its junction with Maine State Route 191. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a mansard roof and clapboard siding. The steep portion of the mansard roof is finished in wood shingles, and is studded with round-arch dormers.
Fort Foster was a military site of the American Revolutionary War in what is now East Machias, Maine. Little more than a large earthworks, it was located on The Rim, a neck of land that commands the confluence of the Machias and East Machias Rivers. The earthworks were built in 1776, and attacked by British forces in the 1777 Battle of Machias.