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Albion was the northern terminus of the Wiscasset and Quebec Railroad; a two-foot gauge railroad running north from the seaport of Wiscasset, Maine. The railroad reached Albion in November 1895, with a goal of eventually extending as far north as Quebec City.
The Hussey–Littlefield Farm is a historic farmstead at 63 Hussey Road in Albion, Maine. Developed between about 1838 and 1905, the farm's connected homestead exhibits the evolutionary changes of rural agricultural architecture in 19th-century Maine. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. [1]
Albion IOOF Hall 1813 22 Main St. [16] Albion, Maine: Building houses Albion's Town Office. Brooklin IOOF Hall: 1896: 1990 SR 175: Brooklin, Maine: Second Empire architecture [12] Odd Fellows-Rebekah Hall (Cornish, Maine) 1902: 1983 High St.
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The land for Albion Place was purchased by Stephen Heritage from Robert Smith, a carpenter, in March 1789. Stephen Heritage laid out the land for the construction of Albion Place and its roads, with building plots for resale. The building plots were then sold on to a group of 20 people in March 1791.
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County Commissioner Alex Moore suggested at that first meeting to name the place Albion, Stevens wrote. Albion had long been used as a synonym for England or Great Britain (like the "cliffs of ...
—Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Universe, 393b Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the British Isles as follows, after describing the Rhine delta: Ex adverso huius situs Britannia insula clara Graecis nostrisque monimentis inter septentrionem et occidentem iacet, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, multo maximis ...