Keywords: Sanford Corner
Item 22944
Leavitt Block, Sanford, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 21367
Sanford Unitarian Church, ca. 1918
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1918 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
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This collection of images portrays many buildings in Sanford and Springvale. The images were taken around the turn of the twentieth century.
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In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"Sanford and their infant daughter Leila both died in 1860. Phebe was just 18. Sanford is buried in the Cross Road cemetery, next to Phebe’s parents."
