Keywords: Knox and Lincoln Railroad
Item 26658
Railroad Depot, Thomaston. ca. 1900
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 26653
Railroad workers at memorial tablet, Thomaston, ca. 1914
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Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
Exhibit
Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875
Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"The Knox and Lincoln Railroad came through Thomaston in 1871 and purchased land either by choice or eminent domain, the proposed railway running…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"The earliest train ferries, the City of Rockland and the Hercules, could only carry passenger and freight cars."
