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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.
Port Gamble lumber mill, 1904. Pope & Talbot, Inc. was a lumber company and shipping company founded by Andrew Jackson Pope and Frederic Talbot in 1849 in San Francisco, California. 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 ...
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 ...
April 11, 1973 (14 Colonial Way: Machias: 13: Calais Free Library: Calais Free Library: April 12, 2001 (Union St., 0.05 miles northwest of its junction with U.S. Route 1: Calais
The East Machias Historic District encompasses the historic early center of the 19th century lumber and shipbuilding center of East Machias, Maine. The district includes houses built between about 1760 and 1880, several churches, and Washington Academy , a private school founded in 1792.
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.
Jeremiah was the eldest son of Irish immigrants Morris and Mary O'Brien. He was born in Kittery, District of Maine in 1744. His family moved to Scarborough, Maine and settled in Machias, Maine in the 1760s to engage in lumbering. They owned two sawmills. Maine was a part of Massachusetts at the time. [2]
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.