Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1901-01-02

church was built in 1855
The 1eih9dist church was bult in 1850;
the Unitarian church in 1868 rhe first
Catholic meeting house was bulr In 1850
and was burned In 1856 TIE present
meeting house was built in 1860
The old court house. now occupied as
high schoolhouse, was built ia 1884, as a
town house. N was to be glye. to the
county II Ellsworth became the shire
| town Ellsworth became the shire town
in 1898, and this building was accepted and
became the courthouse, and he court
records were removed here from astine.
worth was the Independent Courier, by
Charles Lowell, In 1920 Ii passed INTO the
hands OF Benjamin Bond FROM 1929 to
| 1888 several papers were published among
them the Hancock Advertiser oy Grant u
Moore, also the Radical by Daniel p Ike.
In 1887 the Radical became the property
Of Joseph II Jordan, who Published it
| under the name of Laborers Jgurnat. In
1888 nr Lowell published he Northern
Statesman In 1912 Mr.. Jordan started
the Bee; in 1874 the Hancock County Dem
ocrat, in 1858 the Eastern Freeman
The Ellsworth Herald was published in
1851 by Couillard q Hilton; in 1866 by
William ii Clancy, who changed the
name to THE ELLSWORTH AMERICAN.
The Eastern Farmer was printed by Was
son & Moo in 1860; the Hancock Journal
| In 1868.
The brick blocks on Main and Water
streets were built in 1886 the brick blocks
ON Main and State streets in 1887
the corner building, by Andrew Peters;
the one occupied by e. E Brady &
| Co, by John Hubbard; the next
one by Thomas Robertson. The build
ding occupied by F. B Aiken was
built by John Jarvis. 1t was b rned in
1S43, together with a story brick
building owned and occupied as a store
by James Whiting. They were rebuilt
and burned again in the winter of 1S49.
The block built by Seth Tisdale on tine
north end was saved
| In 1915, Dec II, at IL o'clock noon, Ellis
worth was visited by disastrous fire
which started in a furniture shop occupied
| by Barton & Chrehore on tn north side
Of Nam street opposite the Ellsworth
house 1t barnt on that side ai the street
Barton o. Chrehore's shop, a stable, black
smith shop, large three story building &C.
| cupied as boarding hous and owned by
bner Lee, also store below this to the
west. On the other side of the street it
burned store called the LDwell's De-
tiance, occupied by Edward p Blood as a
grocery store, with offices above; also a
large shed
/ In Deem Der 1854 fire started on this
south side of Main street in a building oc-
cupled by Asa Edward, on the lower floor
as grocery store, and by B. F. Thomas in
| the second story, This building was
burned, also the harness shop of Henry
Rollins, book store with dwelling house
above, and the store tlhe upper part
dwelling housel of II d S K Whiting.
A boarding house on the western side oc-
cupied by William Somerby was partially
| burned.
The first steamboat which came In
Union river was the ~. f. Secor" in 1913.
The event was celebrated by firing sa-
| lutte by the old cannon on her arrival in
the afternoon, and display of fireworks
in the evening. She ran during that sea-
son between Belfast and Ellsw orth.
| The first celebration of the Fourth of
July at Union River, was in 1896, on the
western side of the river, near Turner's
hill People came from the settlements
and from the bay and islands. During
the night following, whale came ashore
near the mouth of the river He was
found by the passing boats at the Horden
rocks. News OF this was sent up the river,
and great many went to the place. The
whale was cut up, and a large amount of
oil obtained.
Prior To 1868 we find that there was but
a few settlements OF white men in the
| eastern part Of Maine, but at that time, it
| being supposed the Indian wars were over
and that peace would prevail for long
time, the settling of this territory began.
The water power of Union river is
among the best in the State, there being
eighty feet head from tide water to the
Head of the Falls, and the upper dam
flowing back the water for more than
twelve miles. The water power has been
employed almost exclusively for about 100
| years in the manufacture Of lumber. The
annual product in past years has been
over 25,000000 of long lumber, 5000, 900 OF
shingles, besides clapboards; also over
100 600 box shocks and large quantities of
slaves.
There is an inexhaustible supply of hard
wood of all kinds on the banks and near
the river, showing profitable business in
the near future There has been large
business carried on in Ellsworth in spruce
and juniper knees for shipbuilding pur-
poses, averaging four to five Thousand per
year; also in railroad ties of the best quail
ity in large quantities.