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State Route 220 (SR 220) is a state highway located in central coastal Maine.It begins at State Route 97 in Friendship on the Atlantic coast and runs for 66.50 miles (107.02 km) north to Palmyra, where it ends at State Route 11 and State Route 100.
The Friendship Museum was established in 1964. [7] Before being as the town's museum, it was the Friendship Grammar School from 1851 to 1923. The museum is a typical one-room schoolhouse, measuring 20 by 25 feet (6.1 m × 7.6 m). The museum has many interesting artifacts including models of ships and plans for the famous Friendship sloops. [8]
The Rice Brothers Company was founded in 1892 by brothers Frank, William, and Henry Rice. In 1921, it organized as Rice Brothers Corporation. [1] They built numerous types of small ships (schooners, catboats, yachts, yawls, sloops, ketches, fishing trawlers, motorboats) for private owners as well as ships for the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy. [1]
Pennellville Historic District / ˈ p ɛ n ɪ l v ɪ l / is a residential district located in Brunswick, Maine.To locals, the neighborhood is known simply as "Pennellville." There are several historic ship captains' houses in the District; much of the real estate is waterfront property.
The Harward Family House is located in northern Bowdoinham, on the west side of Pork Point Road, about 0.4 miles (0.64 km) south of its junction with Maine State Route 24. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wood-frame structure, connected via ells to a barn at the rear. The street-facing front is an unusual five-bay gabled facade, with a center entrance.
In 1871, Albion and Menzies Gamage purchased a lot of land in South Bristol, Maine and constructed the A&M Gamage Shipyard which remained in the family until 2000. [5] [6] In 1924, Harvey F. Gamage left his apprenticeship at East Boothbay, ME boatyards and set up business for himself in a small shed on the Gamage shipyard, where he oversaw construction of more than 288 vessels, including many ...
Washburn & Doughty is a shipyard located in East Boothbay, Maine.. Construction plate aboard the Chebeague Island Ferry, then named The Independence. The company was founded in 1977 by Bruce Washburn and Bruce Doughty, then employees at Bath Iron Works. [1]
State Route 8 (SR 8) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, running from U.S. Route 201 (US 201) at Memorial Circle in Augusta, to an intersection with US 201 in Solon. SR 8 is 51.6 miles (83.0 km) long. SR 8 goes north from Augusta through the Belgrade Lakes region, running concurrently with Routes 11 and 27 to Belgrade.