Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
This scene showed the old and the new in Phippsburg Center about 1915, with an ox cart in the foreground and an automobile by the house. At the time, agriculture was still part of the community. The automobile belonged to the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company, and a photographer was probably taking postcard shots nearby.
The building with a chimney, the first house on the Parker Head Road to Popham, was the parsonage for the Phippsburg Congregational Church in the early 1900s. In 2018 it was a home with a business in the barn.
The building in the background was the 1881 Town Hall with an outbuilding. It was the place for Selectmen’s meetings and town meetings, dances, suppers, and other events. In 1958 the town offices and town meetings moved to the new Phippsburg Elementary School. The old building was sold. In 1988, 30 years after the town offices moved out, the old town hall was given back to the town and moved to a location across from the school. Town offices once again occupied the building, although town meetings continued at the school.
About This Item
- Title: Ox team, Phippsburg, ca. 1915
- Creator: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Creation Date: circa 1915
- Subject Date: circa 1915
- Location: Phippsburg, Sagadahoc County, ME
- Media: Glass Plate Negative
- Dimensions: 12.7 cm x 17.8 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.102061
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
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