The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-24
Annals of Belfast for Half a
Century.
BY AN OLD SETTLER
(Hon. VIM. G. Crosby.)
CHAPTER III. (1sO5.)

chapter description of the buildings
standing on Main street in lSo5, the
same course will now be pursued with
High street.
From McClintock corner there was
no building on the northerly side OF tne
.treet so far as the eye could reach IN
the direction of the Upper Bridge, ex-
cept the hatter's shop and the building
adjoining hereinbefofe mentioned ana
a barn standing on the same premises
On the southerly side, the building next
to the Hopkins house, on Howes corner
was the office of William Crosby, Esq.,
on the site now occupied by the brick
store of Mr.. Arnold Harris. This otflce
was built in 1902, and it was necessary
to remove the fallen trees to make room
for it: it was burned in 1866. Next be-
vond it was the dwelling house OF John
Angler. ESQ.,, the same house occupied
by his widow at the time OF her recent
decease. A short distance beyond this
house the travelled portion OF the ROAD
diverged a little to the south leaving on
the lefta one story dwelling owned ano
occupied by Doctor Osborn, standing on
the site of the Court House, and thence
wound its way up the hill, passing the
next building, which was the house OF
Thomas Whittier, Esq, or, as ne was
called in those days, Squire Whltcher;
the same house occupied by the late Al
fred W. johnson, Esq, at the time OF
his decease. While Squire W. lived
there 1t was kept as a tavern and was
regarded as in every sense the mooei
tavern of eastern Maine. He removed to
Searsmont some ten years later, entered
extensively into the manufacture OF lum-
Der, built the large house still standing,
subsequently occupied by Harry Hazel
tine, Esq.,, and continued to reside there
until his decease. While he lived here,
the land now occupied by the buildings
of Ex-Gov. Anderson was his garden
plot, filled every summer with a luxur-
liant growth of flowers and vegetables,
over which Madam w. was the presiding
genius. She was the LADY Bountiful''
of the day; when she left, many. old and
Young, who had been the recipients of
her charities and kindly favors, always
profusely bestowed, felt that they had
sustained personal loss; feeling with
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pathjzed.
Next beyond the Whittier house, on
the premises now occupied by Mr..
Charles B. Hazeltine, stood two story
dwelling owned by another Thomas
Whittier who was called 'red-headed
Tommy" to distinguish him from still
another of the same name. He sold the
premises in the fall of 1905 to Captain
Robert Patterson, then the fourth of the
name, who was lost at sea on his passage
to Cuba where he was in business, in
December 1880, aged fiftyfour. He was
the son of James Patterson, one of the
original settlers who came here in ITO.
son who died in September, 1872. aged
nearly ninety-fve, and the grandfather
of Capt Edward P. Williams, who was
in command of the Oneida when she was
sunk by collision with a British steamer
not far from Y ok ohama in 1870, and sank
with her. The house referred to remain
ed on the premises until 1859, when it
was taken down by Mr.. Hazeltine, who
had then become It's owner.
From the spot where this house stood
there Was no bui ding within sight be-
yond it on the road to the Upper Bridge.
Some idea of the estimated value of real
estate in that section of the town in 1905
may be gathered from the fact that the
price then paid for the house lot, with
the house and barn on it, finished and in
good condition, and twenty acres of land
the rear OF 1T, the lot next northerly
from Grove Cemetery, portion of which
is now within the Cemetery, was one
thousand dollars; the same property was
oolu III 1ooo, JuoI H1iA q NSHeoiJ iAeeA,
for twenty four hundred.
On that portion of High street lying
southerly of Main street the next build
ing to the Nesmith store, on the same
side of the street, was one story dwell
ling owned and occupied by John Dur
ham, who died in 1923, aged seventy-four.
It stood on the site now occupied by Nc
Clintock's Block of brick dwellings;
when they were built it was removed
to the rear, and was burned in the great
ire of 1865. Next to this, on the spot
where Mr.. L. R. Palmer's house stands,
was the blacksmith's shop of Mr.. Jona-
than Quimby; his dwelling house was on
the opposite side of the street; it is now
occupied by Mr.. Arson E. Durham. The
shop was removed, some years later, to
the opposite side of the street to ground
now covered by the buildings occupied
by the Belfast Livery Company.
Mr.. Quimby came here to reside in
1904 from Lebanon, N. H.; the residue
of his days were passed here; he died in
1927, aged sixty-two. He was skiilful
workman and therefore a valuable &C.
QUESTION to the community, a man of