Contributed by Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description
This picture of Main Street in Somesville at the turn of the nineteenth century shows the R.H. Fernald store on the left, a horse-drawn carriage awaits by the front steps.
The center house is described in a note on the back as yellow, and the place where the elementary school met on the second floor, while the post office was on the first floor.
The third house was a milliner's shop run by two women. The last structure on the right is the Selectmen's Building, built in 1780, and the center of town civic life from that time until the second decade of the twentieth century.
The dirt road is augmented by a wooden sidewalk, first constructed in the 1870s through the charitable contributions of the Ladies' Sewing Circle. The sidewalk ran from Babson's Corner (in 2012 the site of the traffic light) to the Mullien Hill Road (now Pretty Marsh Road where the fire station is located).
The handwriting on the back of the photo: "John Somes store, yellow house (in between) first elementary school children met there first floor was post office. (now moved). 3 house - millineary shop run by 2 women."
About This Item
- Title: Stores and Schoolhouse, Somesville, ca. 1900
- Creation Date: circa 1900
- Subject Date: circa 1900
- Location: Somesville, Mount Desert, Hancock County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Dimensions: 8 cm x 13.5 cm
- Local Code: MDIHSjpg99294459
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Government facilities--Maine--Somesville
- Wooden sidewalks--Maine--Somesville
- Business enterprises--Maine--Somesville
- Main Street (Somesville, Me.)
- Schools--Maine--Somesville
- Buildings--Maine--Somesville
- Milinery
People
Other Keywords
- Fernald
- Hat shops
- historic houses
- horse cart
- Miliner's shops
- schoolhouse
- Selectman's buildings
- sidewalks
- Somes
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Mount Desert Island Historical SocietyPO Box 653, 353 Sound Drive, Mount Desert, ME 04660
(207) 276-9323
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