Maine Memory Network

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… and Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach lines that used to run hither and thither? What was it really like in the spring when the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"Objecting to the twenty-five cent tariff to cross the marsh, stagecoach owner Josiah Paine laid out a direct road from Dunstan to Stroudwater."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… travel was by shanks’ mare, boat, horseback or stagecoach. In the 1600s walking from Scarborough to Portland could take two days via a circuitous…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway

"Objecting to the toll, stagecoach operator Josiah Paine avoided the marsh by creating at his own expense a direct route from Dunstan to Stroudwater."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"The main road at that point actually ran under the archway of the barn where stagecoaches stopped and horses were changed from a stable of 15 stalls."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 1 of 4

"… of travel lanes, where inland roads met stagecoach routes. When railroad lines were established, in later years, villages grew where train depots…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"Salesmen, stagecoach passengers, and lumbermen were taken to their destinations on horseback or by carriage."

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 1 of 4

"… was built in 1828 across the Sandy River, the stagecoaches replaced those equine mail carriers. As Strong grew, townspeople added churches and…"

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"It was a stop for the stagecoach and, in addition to the dining room and traveler's rooms, it had a large horse stable."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… just below the First Parish Meetinghouse, was a stagecoach depot and popular watering place for the likes of critic John Neal and artist Charles…"