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Yarmouth's marina in 2022, looking south. Also known as Falls Village or The Falls, Lower Falls (named for the nearby First Falls) was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while—on the southern side of today's East Main Street Bridge—was Yarmouth's harbor, where many hundreds of ships were built and launched in the century between 1790 and 1890.
Research was a full-rigged ship built in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia which was famous for a determined and courageous crew who replaced her rudder eight times to survive a crippling North Atlantic storm in 1866. Research was built in 1861 for the fleet of Thomas Killam and was the largest vessel built to that date in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
William Royall (c. 1595 –1676) was a 17th-century English emigrant to the New England Colonies.The Royal River in Maine is named for him. [1] [2] (It was named Yarmouth River at the time of his inhabitance in the area, which was then part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.)
There's a small parking area off Route 6A, located next to the Yarmouth Port post office — but don't park in the post office lot! Along the scenic Pond Trail at the Historical Society of Old ...
The history of Yarmouth, Maine, is closely tied to its position on the banks of the Royal River and its proximity to Casco Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Maine, itself a gulf of the Atlantic Ocean. Native Americans originally settled the area, and several wars between them and later European settlers occurred before they were driven from the area ...
Mariners such a Capt. George "Rudder" Churchill of Yarmouth became famous for their voyages. The province also produced a notable 19th-century female mariner, Bessie Hall from Annapolis Royal . The most famous of the sailors from Nova Scotia was Joshua Slocum who became the first man to sail single-handedly around the world (1895).
After almost 20 years of running Jack's Outback II, Dona Baratta is putting the beloved Yarmouth Port restaurant up for sale. How a Yarmouth restaurant went from 'enemy of the people' to beloved ...
YARMOUTH — Levee Breaks Investment Group LLC, a Yarmouth-based investment company that declared bankruptcy on Oct. 21, 2021, has left 70 creditors, including 55 investors, holding the bag.