Maine Memory Network

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

"… New England, ran straight across the marsh from Oak Hill to Dunstan, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by tolls of eight cents for a…"

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

"It crossed the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill, the current path of Route 1, and was funded by toll rates, eight cents for a horse and twenty-five…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"… identified themselves as being from Dunstan, Oak Hill, Pine Point or other neighborhood until the 1990s."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - A Look Inside the Classroom Over Time - Page 3 of 4

"… it was made of lampblack or tannic acid from oak trees mixed with light oil. Ink could also be made from swamp maple bark and copperas."

Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street

"He is buried in Bath at the Oak Grove Cemetery. Gershom H. Palmer opened a dry goods business in 1868, lasting at 94 Front Street until 1876."