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Historic Map - Eastport, ME - 1879
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Bird’s-eye View of Eastport, Washington County, Maine, 1879, Published by J. J. Stoner.
Reproduction print of historic Eastport, Maine as it appeared in 1879. A town deserving of its name, Eastport is the most eastern port in the United States. This map shows lively maritime activity in the harbor with a variety of masted vessels and steamboats depicted. The numbered references are clearly labeled on the map. Significant rust stains are apparant in the middle of the map.
Incorporated in 1798, the town was known as Moose Island when James Cochrane, a fisherman from Newburyport, Massachusetts arrived, becoming the first settler in 1772.
Fort Sullivan was built to protect American interests in 1809; however the British captured the fort in 1814, claiming that Eastport was on the British side of the border that had been established in 1783. Eastport was returned to the United States in 1818, with the final settlement reached through the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, assuring its position as the United States’ easternmost port.
The Greenback Party emerged in the 1870’s starting as a political movement opposed to the National Banking System and evolved into a party that supported an income tax and worker’s rights.
An interesting glimpse into local politics at the time this map was published is revealed in this brief article published in the “Daily Kennebec Journal” on September 22, 1879:
“Greenback Bulldozing at Eastport”
“The most conspicuous case of bulldozing in the late election which has come to our notice occurred in the town of Eastport. There are three fish factories in that town, at which quite a large number of men are employed. On the morning of election the proprietor or manager of one of these factories, made the announcement to his men to go and vote as they pleased, but if any man voted the republican ticket he need not come back to that factory expecting employment.
Another one stood at the polls, and as his men came up he gave to each a greenback ticket, and watched to see that it was put into the ballot-box.
When the time came to go to the polls the men from the three factories were formed in procession and, with fife and drum playing and two banners flying, marched to the place of meeting. Upon one of the banners was the inscription, “State Rights”, upon the other, “Greenbacks”. There were some sixty persons in the procession, all of whom marched to the polls and voted the greenback ticket. The town meeting was the most turbulent that has been known in Eastport for years, all on account of the bulldozing performances of the communistic greenbackers.
We have not seen any account of this affair in any democratic paper in the State, although they have a great deal to say about bribery and bulldozing by the republicans. Neither have we seen anything in their pretended and fictitious reports of bulldozing by republicans that comes up to the enormity of the naked facts in this Eastport case, which we learn from reliable persons who were eye-witnesses of the same.”
Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:
• Memorial Hall.
• High School.
• Grammar School.
• Trescott Hall.
• Fort Sullivan.
• U. S. Custom House, P. O. & Signal Office.
• Fire Engine House.
• Gas Works.
• International S. S. Co’s Wharf.
• Todd’s Head Battery.
• Passamaquoddy House, A. Pike & Co., Proprietors.
• Island House, E. S. Kenney Proprietor.
• Paine Bro.’s Wharf.
• Central Wharf, S. L. Wadsworth Commission Mer.
• Union Wharf.
• J. C. Young Smoke House.
• Young & Stimpson Fish Wharf.
• Market Wharf.
• Kelly Bro.’s Fish, Dealers, Whalen’s Wharf.
• Leavitt’s Wharf.
• I. C. Blakey’s Wharf.
• Martin & Sellman’s Wharf.
• Michener’s
• Odell’s.
• Milliken’s Wharf.
• D. G. Furbush & Son Fish Wharf.
• Wolfe & Reessing Fish Wharf.
• Pike & Faben Fish Wharf.
• P. M. Kane Fish Wharf.
• H. Blanchard Steam Mill.
• Peabody & Cumming’s Wharf.
• J. S. Buck Fish Wharf.
• Bass Fish Wharf.
• O’Grady’s Fish Wharf.
• Custom House Wharf.
• C. H. Dyer Wharf.
• French’s Wharf.
• Carrying Place
CHURCHES:
• Baptist.
• North Baptist.
• Congregational.
• Episcopal.
• Methodist.
• Roman Catholic.
• Unitarian.
• Cemetery.
Reproduction print of historic Eastport, Maine as it appeared in 1879. A town deserving of its name, Eastport is the most eastern port in the United States. This map shows lively maritime activity in the harbor with a variety of masted vessels and steamboats depicted. The numbered references are clearly labeled on the map. Significant rust stains are apparant in the middle of the map.
Incorporated in 1798, the town was known as Moose Island when James Cochrane, a fisherman from Newburyport, Massachusetts arrived, becoming the first settler in 1772.
Fort Sullivan was built to protect American interests in 1809; however the British captured the fort in 1814, claiming that Eastport was on the British side of the border that had been established in 1783. Eastport was returned to the United States in 1818, with the final settlement reached through the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842, assuring its position as the United States’ easternmost port.
The Greenback Party emerged in the 1870’s starting as a political movement opposed to the National Banking System and evolved into a party that supported an income tax and worker’s rights.
An interesting glimpse into local politics at the time this map was published is revealed in this brief article published in the “Daily Kennebec Journal” on September 22, 1879:
“Greenback Bulldozing at Eastport”
“The most conspicuous case of bulldozing in the late election which has come to our notice occurred in the town of Eastport. There are three fish factories in that town, at which quite a large number of men are employed. On the morning of election the proprietor or manager of one of these factories, made the announcement to his men to go and vote as they pleased, but if any man voted the republican ticket he need not come back to that factory expecting employment.
Another one stood at the polls, and as his men came up he gave to each a greenback ticket, and watched to see that it was put into the ballot-box.
When the time came to go to the polls the men from the three factories were formed in procession and, with fife and drum playing and two banners flying, marched to the place of meeting. Upon one of the banners was the inscription, “State Rights”, upon the other, “Greenbacks”. There were some sixty persons in the procession, all of whom marched to the polls and voted the greenback ticket. The town meeting was the most turbulent that has been known in Eastport for years, all on account of the bulldozing performances of the communistic greenbackers.
We have not seen any account of this affair in any democratic paper in the State, although they have a great deal to say about bribery and bulldozing by the republicans. Neither have we seen anything in their pretended and fictitious reports of bulldozing by republicans that comes up to the enormity of the naked facts in this Eastport case, which we learn from reliable persons who were eye-witnesses of the same.”
Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:
• Memorial Hall.
• High School.
• Grammar School.
• Trescott Hall.
• Fort Sullivan.
• U. S. Custom House, P. O. & Signal Office.
• Fire Engine House.
• Gas Works.
• International S. S. Co’s Wharf.
• Todd’s Head Battery.
• Passamaquoddy House, A. Pike & Co., Proprietors.
• Island House, E. S. Kenney Proprietor.
• Paine Bro.’s Wharf.
• Central Wharf, S. L. Wadsworth Commission Mer.
• Union Wharf.
• J. C. Young Smoke House.
• Young & Stimpson Fish Wharf.
• Market Wharf.
• Kelly Bro.’s Fish, Dealers, Whalen’s Wharf.
• Leavitt’s Wharf.
• I. C. Blakey’s Wharf.
• Martin & Sellman’s Wharf.
• Michener’s
• Odell’s.
• Milliken’s Wharf.
• D. G. Furbush & Son Fish Wharf.
• Wolfe & Reessing Fish Wharf.
• Pike & Faben Fish Wharf.
• P. M. Kane Fish Wharf.
• H. Blanchard Steam Mill.
• Peabody & Cumming’s Wharf.
• J. S. Buck Fish Wharf.
• Bass Fish Wharf.
• O’Grady’s Fish Wharf.
• Custom House Wharf.
• C. H. Dyer Wharf.
• French’s Wharf.
• Carrying Place
CHURCHES:
• Baptist.
• North Baptist.
• Congregational.
• Episcopal.
• Methodist.
• Roman Catholic.
• Unitarian.
• Cemetery.
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