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Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine
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The '''historical buildings and structures of [[Yarmouth, Maine]]''', represent a variety of building styles and usages, largely based on its past as home to almost sixty [[mill]]s over a period of roughly 250 years. These mills include that of [[grain]], [[lumber]], [[pulp (paper)|pulp]] and [[cotton]].<ref name=rowe1936>''Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History'', William Hutchison Rowe (1937)</ref> Additionally, almost three hundred vessels were launched by Yarmouth's shipyards in the century between 1790 and 1890.<ref name="Hall">''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Hall, Alan M., Arcadia (2002)</ref>
The Maine Historic Preservation Commission<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z7T6v9 MHPCPC at MaineStateMuseum.org]</ref> has found many of Yarmouth's historic buildings eligible for listing on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=gaertner/>
==National Register of Historic Places==
[[File:Cousins Island Chapel.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Cousins Island Chapel]]]]
Twelve properties in Yarmouth are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name=NRHP/> The oldest (the Cushing and Hannah Prince House) dates from 1785; the "newest" (the [[Grand Trunk Station (Yarmouth)|Grand Trunk Railway Station]]) was built in 1906, replacing a structure built in 1848. They are ranked in chronological order below:
*[[Cushing and Hannah Prince House]], 189 Greely Road
*[[North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meetinghouse|North Yarmouth and Freeport Baptist Meeting House]], 3 Hillside Street
*[[Mitchell House (Yarmouth, Maine)|Ammi Mitchell House]], 333 Main Street
*Russell Hall, North Yarmouth Academy, 129 Main Street
*Academy Hall, North Yarmouth Academy, 129 Main Street
*[[Capt. S.C. Blanchard House|Captain S.C. Blanchard House]], 317 Main Street
*[[Capt. Reuben Merrill House|Captain Reuben Merrill House]], 233 West Main Street
*[[Central Parish Church|First Universalist Church]], 97 Main Street
*[[First Parish Congregational Church]], 116 Main Street
*[[Camp Hammond (Yarmouth, Maine)|Camp Hammond]], 275 Main Street
*[[Cousins Island Chapel]], Cousins Street, Cousins Island
*[[Grand Trunk station (Yarmouth)|Grand Trunk Railway Station]], 288 Main Street
==Lower Falls==
Also known as the First Falls, it was the location of several mills from the 17th century onward, while — on the southern side of the bridge — were the yards where many hundreds of ships were built and launched between 1740 and 1890.
===Main Street===
[[File:Main Street 2, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|left|200px|An early barber shop and (in the left side of the same building) what became George Soule's ice cream shop and pool hall. Vining's deli is beside it to the east. This is around where the building at 82 Main Street now stands, just short of Staples Hill, where the Main Street and Marina Road split occurs]]
[[File:Goffs Hardware Store, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|Goffs hardware store, at the eastern end of Main Street ([[Maine State Route 115|Route 115]]), closed in 2015 after 46 years in business]]
[[File:49_Main_Street_Yarmouth_Maine.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|49 Main Street was built in 1845]]
[[File:Junction of Main and Portland Streets, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The intersection of Main and Portland Streets, looking west. The site of Susan Kinghorn's millinery is now a Rosemont Market & Bakery. The [[steeple (architecture)|steeple]] belongs to the [[First Parish Congregational Church]]]]
19th- and 20th-century homes and business that existed on Main Street in Yarmouth's Lower Falls (also ''Falls Village'' or ''The Falls'') section included (roughly from east to west):<ref name="Hall"/>
*Nicholas Grant built the Greek Revival house at 37 Main Street, on the hill down to the harbor, around 1844<Ref name=gaertner/>
*Henry Rowe (b. 1812, d. 1870)<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Hd6NTr "Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940"]</ref> was the architect of the pink Gothic Revival house at 49 Main Street, which was built in 1845.<ref name=gaertner/> Rowe also designed [[The Gothic House]] in Portland
*50 Main Street, the old Hose No. 2 at the Main Street and Marina Road split, was built for the fire department around 1889<ref name=gaertner/>
*Back on the northern side of the street, number 57 was built around 1813<ref name=gaertner/>
*Next door, number 63, was built around 1849<ref name=gaertner/>
*76 Main Street, set back from the road, adjacent to Torrey Court, was built in 1792. The home has six bedrooms, five bathrooms, and sits on 1.6 acres<ref name=gaertner/>
*73 Main Street was once the home of Jacob G. Loring<ref name=gaertner/>
*In the building at 82–84 Main Street was W.N. Richards & Co. (owned by William Richards); in the 1960s Vining's [[delicatessen]]<ref name=gaertner/> and, beside it to the west, George Soule's ice cream shop and pool hall
*Across the street, in the brick building at 85 Main Street, is Svetlana. The building was erected around 1848<ref name=gaertner/>
*90 Main Street was Barbour's [[hardware store]]; later Goffs hardware (1969–2015)
*Manley E. Bishop's grocery store stood to the east of the present-day Goffs building
*Englishman James Parsons' [[grocery store]], "a two-story building standing on the lot adjoining that where stood for so many years the little old post office".<ref name=plummer/> It was here that "dignified citizens like Doctor Bates, L.L. Shaw and Barnabas Freeman often assembled for an evening's chat".<ref name=plummer/> Parsons arrived in town around 1860 and married a very wealthy local woman<ref name="Hall"/>
*[[Post office]] until around 1905. The first [[postmaster]] was Payne Elwell (b. 1744, d. 1820) in 1793. (He lived in the building that is now 162 Main Street, which stands on the former site of the Knights of Pythias Hall.) He was succeeded in 1803 by Samuel P. Russell, David Drinkwater in 1804, John Hale in 1810, Daniel Mitchell in 1816, James C. Hill in 1834, Jacob G. Loring in 1842 and Reuben Cutter in 1845.<ref name=gaertner/> When the town split occurred, the office name was changed in 1852 to Yarmouth from North Yarmouth. Reuben Cutter resumed the role, and was followed by Otis Briggs Pratt in 1861 and Nicholas Drinkwater in 1866. Lucy V. Groves was appointed in 1868, becoming the first woman named or elected to an official position in the town of Yarmouth. Lucy Q. Cutter succeeded her in 1887, Melville C. Merrill in 1898, Frank Howard Drinkwater in 1911, Frank O. Wellcome in 1914 and Ernest C. Libby in 1936<ref name=rowe1936/>
*Cornelius Shaw's Cash Market (1899)<!--The plural version, Shaws', appeared on the sign, meaning it was a family business.-->
*Today's 91 Main Street: Captain Thomas Chase Store, built around 1819.<ref name=gaertner/> Between 1895 and 1929 it was Leon Doughty's stove and hardware store, L.A. Doughty & Co. It is now Snip 'N Clip Hair Designs, still with the windows that were installed in 1932. Doughty moved across the street, into the building to be later occupied by L.R. Doherty's hardware store, Barbour's and Goffs, when his business expanded
*William Freeman's hairdressing salon (located above Doughty's before its move). Freeman lived on Lafayette Street. He had at least two children: William and Jennie
*[[Cyrus H. K. Curtis|Cyrus Curtis]]' ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'' publishers
*The [[Hatmaking|millinery]] shop of Susan Kinghorn (located at the eastern corner of Main and Portland Streets in the building now occupied by Rosemont Market); between 1942 and 1953 [Harold B.] Allen's Variety Store, then Daken's, Romie's, Lindahl's, Donatelli's Pizza, Denucci's Pizza (briefly) and Connor's
[[File:Runge's Yarmouth.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Rufus York's general store in the 1860s and 1870s, this brick building, at 108 Main Street, is now home to Runge's Oriental Rugs]]
*Elder Rufus York's [[general store]] (located in the brick building now occupied by Runge's Oriental Rug store at the western corner of Main and Portland Streets; later William Hutchinson Rowe's, then Melville Merrill's, then Frank W. Bucknam's [[Pharmacy]] (1894–1900). Bucknam was appointed as Maine's Commissioner of Pharmacy in 1906. He entered the drug business as an apprentice with Leone R. Cook. After running his own store for six years, he purchased a store in [[Skowhegan]]. His new business was destroyed by fire in 1904, but he was back in business in a temporary store within 36 hours. He eventually found a new home beneath the Oxford Hotel at 78 Water Street. This building too burned down, in 1908.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z6nfLd "Item 20925 - Oxford Hotel fire, Skowhegan, 1908"] - Vintage Maine Images</ref><ref>[https://ift.tt/2H8U8B6 ''The Bulletin of Pharmacy'', volume XX, January to December 1906]</ref> The Yarmouth building became Roger Vaughan's [[Rexall]] Pharmacy from 1945 to 1963. (Vaughan's original sign was restored to the Portland Street corner of the building in 2014 but was taken down the following year). York ran the general store with his wife, Zoa
In 1874, the Lower Falls near the harbor was crowded with the homes of sea captains, merchants and shipbuilders.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.10</ref>
In 1903, the post office established a route around town for the rural free delivery of mail. Hired was Joshua Adams Drinkwater as the town's first [[letter carrier]]. Early in the morning he would leave Princes Point, pick up the mail at Lower Falls, and then deliver letters to the northern edge of town, including Sligo and Mountfort Roads. Around noon, he would pick up the afternoon sack for the town's western and coastal farms. Each day, as he passed his farm on Princes Point Road, he would change horses and eat lunch with his wife, Harriet.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.11</ref> They had a daughter, Elizabeth.
Also to do with horses, an ornate, circular [[horse trough]] resembling a water fountain existed at the intersection of Main and Portland Streets in the early 1900s;<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.19</ref> it now stands behind the Merrill Memorial Library.
The [[parsonage]] for the Universalist church was the brick building at 89 Main Street, now occupied by Plumb-It et al, to the east of Snip 'N Clip.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.12</ref> It was built around 1845 by Bradbury True, whose sons owned the neighboring houses.<ref name=gaertner/>
95 Main Street, a high-style Italianate,<ref name=gaertner/> is now owned by the First Universalist Church.
On the other side of the church, at number 109, just to the east of where ''Old Sloop'' (later known as Union Hall) once stood, is an Italianate house that was formerly the home of Edward J. Stubbs, one of Yarmouth's most prolific and successful shipbuilders.<ref name="America 2002 p.16">''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.16</ref>
Lyman Walker (b. 1814, d. 1906) and his son, Lyman Fessenden Walker, owned a general wood and coal business in the lower village.<ref name=tradejournal/>
124 Main Street, which faces the Bridge Street intersection, is the circa-1825 John Sargent House.<ref name=gaertner/> Next door, at number 128, is a 1920s-built house now used as the NYA admissions office.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Bridge Street===
[[File:132_Bridge_Street_Yarmouth_Maine.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|This house, at number 132 Bridge Street, was built in 1870 and has its "integrity intact", according to a surveyor<ref name=gaertner/>]]
Bridge Street crosses the Second Falls at the Sparhawk Mill. It connects to Main Street to the south and Willow Street to the north.
17 Bridge Street was built in 1852 and used as the parsonage for the First Parish Church between 1862 and 1997.<ref name=gaertner/> Meanwhile, 21 Bridge Street was built as a duplex for mill owners Mitchell and Loring.<ref name=gaertner/>
The original wooden 1811 NYA school building was removed to the adjacent Bridge Street "just below the residence of the late Charles O. Rowe, the father of William Hutchinson Rowe,<ref name=rowe1936/> roughly where number 28 Bridge Street is today.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.20</ref>
[[File:80_and_100_Bridge_Street.jpeg|thumb|left|200px|80 and, on the hill, 100 Bridge Street]]
43 Bridge Street was part of Royal River Manufacturing Company in 1871.<ref name=gaertner/>
Crossing the river, directly across from the Sparhawk Mill tower is 80 Bridge Street, which was built as the office for the above business in the early 1880s. Its architect was [[Francis H. Fassett]].<ref name=gaertner/>
The former home of George G. Loring stands on the hill overlooking the falls at 100 Bridge Street.<ref name=gaertner/>
Mill-owner Philip H. Kimball built the house at 125 Bridge, which is today's Charron residence.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 132 was built in 1840.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z6C0xD 132 Bridge Street, Yarmouth, ME 04096] - Redfin</ref>
The run-down building at 148 Bridge (at its intersection with Willow Street) has been vacant since the early 2000s. It was built in 1826.<ref name=gaertner/>
===East Main Street===
[[Image:Route 88, Yarmouth, Maine 2.jpg|thumb|East Main Street ([[Maine State Route 88|State Route 88]], as opposed to Main Street's [[Maine State Route 115|State Route 115]] designation) crossing the Royal River by Lower Falls' Grist Mill Park. [[Interstate 295 (Maine)|Interstate 295]] passes just out of view to the left, crossing the western edge of the town's harbor]]
East Main Street (which changes from [[Maine State Route 115|State Route 115]] to [[Maine State Route 88|State Route 88]] here) crosses the bridge at the First Falls and has been a route to the northeastern part of Yarmouth (and into Freeport) since the founding of the town.
38 East Main Street was built by shipbuilder Albion Seabury.<ref name=gaertner/> Directly opposite, number 43 was originally owned by Jonathan True, a clothier who owned a store at Lower Falls. It was later associated with Dr. David Jones.<ref name=gaertner/>
48 East Main was moved there in 1817 by Major Daniel Mitchell and expanded by Daniel L. Mitchell.<ref name=gaertner/>
51 East Main Street was once the home of William Stockbridge, a prominent merchant, ship owner and town treasurer. It operated as the main building of the Royal River Cabins until the 1940s.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 56 was likely built by clockmaker Lebbeus Bailey. It was also associated with Albion Seabury.<ref name=gaertner/> Next door, at 64 East Main, is a home built by Augustus True.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 68, at the corner of East Main and Yankee Drive, was built by Peter Weare, a sawmill and gristmill owner. It has also served as a tavern, a general store and, between 1900 and 1907, a girls' school.<ref name=gaertner/>
Close to the East Main and Spring Street split, number 96 was likely built by Samuel Buxton and later occupied by Nathaniel True.<ref name=gaertner/>
100 East Main Street was Asa Bisbee's blacksmith shop around 1830.<ref name=gaertner/> Next door, number 112, was built by Jacob Jones around 1818.<ref name=gaertner/>
Just beyond the junction with Willow Street stands number 129, which was built by Madison Northey around 1865.<ref name=gaertner/>
Samuel Kinney lived at number 149 around 1813.<ref name=gaertner/>
===High Street===
High Street, a [[cul-de-sac]], is off the northern section of Portland Street. Rocky Hill Road runs from the end of High down to Marina Road.
Shipbuilder Elbridge Hutchins lived at 5 High Street.<ref name=gaertner/>
73 High Street, built in 1868, was the home of John R. Gooding.<ref name=gaertner/>
85 High Street was built by Solomon Sawyer and remained in his family until 1984.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Lafayette Street===
Lafayette Street is what [[Maine State Route 88|State Route 88]] becomes upon its entry to Yarmouth from Cumberland Foreside. It was originally known as [[New_England_road_marking_system#Route_1|Atlantic Highway]].
28 Lafayette Street, which stands beside the stone marker honoring Walter Gendall, was built in 1750 according to one source or, according to another, in the 1920s.<ref name=gaertner/>
Across the street at number 33, Reed's Machine Shop was built around 1930. It has been owned since 1973 by Stephen Welch.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Hd6OXv "Yarmouth is looking to reconnect itself"] - ''Portland Press Herald'', August 2, 2012</ref>
===Marina Road===
Marina Road is the right-hand turn at the Staples Hill split with Main at East Main. It was one of the two access roads to the harbor from Main Street.
Original owner Peter Allen tore down the Hannah Russell House at 3 Marina Road and built the current structure in 1881.<ref name=gaertner/> Until 2018 it was home to the business Women to Women.
Herman Seabury, a shipyard foreman, was the original owner of 9 Marina Road. It remained in his family for sixty years.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 22 is believe to date from around 1800.<ref name=gaertner/>
The last building on Marina Road before the Lafayette Street intersection is number 59. Built by Harry Dean as a tea room, it later became a shoe-repair shop, an antique store and an office.<ref name=gaertner/> It is now a nutritionist business.
===Pleasant Street===
[[File:51_Pleasant_Street_Yarmouth_Maine.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|51 Pleasant Street has been the home of several notable Yarmouth residents]]
[[File:71_Pleasant_Street_Yarmouth_Maine.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|71 Pleasant Street was built in 1750 and has its "integrity intact", according to a survey co-ordinator<ref name=gaertner/>]]
Originally where the Atlantic Highway continued from today's Route 88 out of Cumberland Foreside, and part of the route of the trolley cars of the Portland and Yarmouth Electric Railway Company's runs at fifteen-minute intervals. It was also the access road to the wharves before the Lafayette Street hill was paved. Several people pertinent to the shipbuilding industry lived on Pleasant Street, including Captain William Gooding and his brother, Henry, who died after accidentally shooting himself during a hunting excursion. He was 37.
Shipbuilder Giles Loring lived at number 35.<ref name=gaertner/>
The original owner of the 1860-built number 44 was a ship captain.<ref name=gaertner/>
Daniel M. Stubbs built the circa-1859 number 50. It was purchased in 1864 by photographer Charles Gustavus Gooding.<ref name=gaertner/>
Several notable members of Yarmouth's seafaring past have lived in the brick number 51: mariner Enos Chandler, master shipwright Lyman Fessenden Walker and Giles Loring.<ref name=gaertner/>
William Gooding Jr. built number 68 around 1846. It remained in the family for 103 years.<ref name=gaertner/>
The cape at number 71 was built in 1750.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2ZbWEfQ 71 Pleasant Street, Yarmouth, ME 04096] - Redfin</ref>
Number 85's original owner was yeoman and shipbuilder Henry Hutchins.<ref name=gaertner/>
Shipbuilder William Gooding lived across the street at number 86.<ref name=gaertner/>
112 Pleasant Street is believed to be one of the oldest homes in Yarmouth.<ref name=gaertner/>
Penelope Seabury lived in the cape at number 135.<ref name=gaertner/>
The home at the inside of the curve down to Lafayette Street is believed to have been built before 1900.<ref name=gaertner/> Meanwhile, number 242, the final home on the right before Lafayette Street, was built in 1836.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Gooding's End===
At the apex of the Pleasant Street corner is Gooding's End, named for the family involved in shipbuilding down at the harbor. Henry Gooding lived at number 7.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 25 was originally part of the Royal River Cabins on Route 88. It is believed this cabin was the one [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] stayed in when in Yarmouth in the 1940s.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Portland Street===
The northern (village) end of the street is the historic part. The southern section, across Route 1, eventually leads to Portland.
The former District Number 3 schoolhouse still stands at number 12 Portland Street. It was the superintendent's office for several years. Its original architect was [[Francis H. Fassett]].<ref name=gaertner/>
Ammi Storer, the original owner of a business in the brick building at the corner of Main and Portland, lived at number 17. He built the house around 1867.<ref name=gaertner/> Shoemaker Tristram Cleaves lived next to the schoolhouse at number 18.<ref name=gaertner/>
In an 1875 photograph of the northern end of Portland Street, with the Universalist church in the background, Englishman Captain Henry Newton's house (number 34) is visible on the right.<ref name="America 2002 p.15">''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.15</ref> Dr. William Parsons<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Hd6Qi5 ''Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine'']</ref> and painter Gad Hitchcock previously lived there. [[Leon Gorman]], the grandson of [[Leon Leonwood Bean]], also lived here until his death at the age of 80. He was, at the time of his passing, the wealthiest person living in the state of Maine, having had a reported net worth of $860 million.<ref></ref><ref></ref>
The original owner of number 23 was a blacksmith.<ref name=gaertner/>
Reuben Cutter, a shoemaker and postmaster, was the original owner of number 37 around 1839.<ref name=gaertner/>
Another blacksmith, Dexter Hale, was the original owner of number 47.<ref name=gaertner/>
Halfway along this northern section of Portland Street, at number 115, is a three-story Federal-style building that was once a tavern, built, around 1810, by Colonel Seth Mitchell. It was later occupied by Deacon John Webster, in 1820, and Captain Eben Lane and his son-in-law Irving True. Lane ran it as a tavern from around 1857 until after 1871.<ref name=gaertner/> After 1915, Ralph Redfern used the property for a dairy that became known as Old Tavern Farm.<ref name="America 2002 p.15"/> Just north of this, at number 61 (near the intersection with High Street), is the 1833 Federal-style cape that was owned by Davis Moxcey, a local shipwright in the early years of shipbuilding.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Storer Street===
Off the northern end of Portland Street, Storer Street runs behind the First Parish Church. It is named for Ammi Storer, who was the first to run a business in the brick building at the corner, next to the church.
Number 23 was originally the home of papermaker William Hawes. The house was moved from Main Street around 1867 when the church was built.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Brickyard Hollow==
[[File:Brickyard Hollow, Yarmouth ME.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Brickyard Hollow, before it was filled in. Photo taken from where the Route 1 overpass is today, looking northwest]]
The section of town between the Upper Village and Lower Falls was known as Brickyard Hollow, named for the brick-making business that was located across the street from the Masonic Hall (now the restaurant Gather), which was built in the 1870s.
A muddy valley up until the beginning of the 20th century, the Hollow was eventually reclaimed as a civic center by laying down a two-foot layer of black ash, from Forest Paper Company, to level it out. After constructing two new schools, the Merrill Memorial Library and a war memorial, town officials also decided to rename the area Centervale in order to improve its image. The name did not last, however.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.37</ref>
===Main Street===
[[File:261 Main Street, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This house, at 261 Main Street, was built in 1879 as the home of Sylvanus Cushing Blanchard. Camp Hammond is visible in the background on the left. The carriage house on the right is now the parking lot of InterMed]]
[[File:261_Main_Street_2019.jpg|thumb|left|200px|The much-altered building in 2019]]
The cape at 163 Main Street was built around 1843.<ref name=gaertner/> 171 Main Street, on the eastern corner of the York Street intersection, dates from about the same year.<ref name=gaertner/> Across the intersection, at 179 Main Street, is a Greek Revival cape built in 1842.<ref name=gaertner/>
In 1890, Yarmouth built a large new school building on the site of the present, 1975-built town hall and police station. Grades 5 to 8 were on the first floor; the high school occupied the upper level.<ref name="America 2002 p.39">''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.39</ref> A three-story high school was constructed next to this in 1900. When all of the high-school students were sent to North Yarmouth Academy in 1930, the building became another elementary school. In 1974, both buildings were demolished to make way for the current construction.<ref name="America 2002 p.39"/>
In 1903, six years before his death at the age of 76, Joseph Edward Merrill donated the funds to build a new library. The architect was Alexander Longfellow, a nephew of the poet [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. Also involved in the library's construction was John Coombs, father of George and Albert. Despite the occasional flood, town offices were eventually established in the library's basement.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.41</ref> The flooding was partly caused by the blockage of Cleaves Brook (where today's police station is) — which formerly drained the whole center of town — when Brickyard Hollow was filled in.
Directly across the street from the library stood the Dumphy house and barn. These were auctioned off in 1921, creating more public space in Centervale.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.42</ref>
In 1904, the town's [[American Civil War|Civil War]] veterans sought permission to place a soldiers monument in front of the new schools. With funds lacking, it was put off until after [[World War I]] (during which 106 Yarmouth residents served),<ref name=Aldredge/> when the project was completed in tandem with a board of trade plan to erect a [[bandstand]]. The resulting octagon structure, in the [[Doric order]], was adorned by a plaque to the veterans. The words "Memorial To Men of Yarmouth in War Service" appeared just below the roof line. The structure was inadequately maintained, however, and had to be removed when rotting boards resulted in injuries.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.43</ref>
[[File:Brickyard Hollow 2, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Brickyard Hollow, around where the town hall now stands, looking east towards NYA]]
In 1929, a new centralized post office was built to the east of the present 1932-dedicated Anderson-Mayberry [[American Legion]] Hall (named for servicemen Edgar Anderson and Edwin Mayberry, who died from the Spanish flu while based at [[Fort Devens]]).<ref name="Hall"/> On the left side of this building was the Fidelity Trust Company. The bank failed early in the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s.<ref name=p38>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.38</ref> To the east of the post office stood the [[Knights of Pythias]] Hall.<ref name=p38/> It became the Pastime Theatre in the 1920s, then Yarmouth Theatre between 1942 and 1956. Harriman's [[IGA (supermarkets)|IGA Foodliner]] moved here in the late 20th century from its Main and West Elm Streets location. A [[KeyBank]] (formerly Casco Bank) and the parking lot for NYA's Priscilla Savage Middle School now stand in its place.
During the middle of the 20th century, in the plaza across Cleaves Street that formerly housed a [[7-Eleven]] and, until 2017, Anthony's Dry Cleaners & Laundromat was the Dairy Joy ice-creamery, in front, and the Korner Kitchen (formerly the Snack Shack) behind it.
Across the street, at the intersection of Main and School Streets (in the building filled by People's United Bank), the post office occupied its final location before its move to Forest Falls Drive.
Ship owner Cyrus Foss Sargent's home stands at 251 Main Street. It ran as the Village Inn between 1916 and 1920.<ref name=gaertner/>
A [[lithograph]] from 1851, depicting the area of Main Street serviced by York Street, shows the home of [[George Woods (Pitt Chancellor)|George Woods]] and, next door, the Yarmouth Institute, which he established as direct competition with North Yarmouth Academy. Although it attracted students from as far afield as [[Cuba]], his institute lacked an [[financial endowment|endowment]] and closed after five years. Woods sold the building to Paul Blanchard in 1853. It was torn down in 1930. In 1859, while serving in his new role as [[chancellor]] of the [[University of Pittsburgh]], a lawsuit involving his dispute with NYA precipitated the split in Yarmouth's First Parish Church.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.17</ref>
In 1879, the building at 261 Main Street (across from Hancock Lumber) was built for Sylvanus Cushing Blanchard. Later owners of the house include Joseph Hodsdon, proprietor of Hodsdon Shoe Company, and Dr. Fiore Agesilao Parisi.
273 Main Street, which stands at the entrance to Camp Hammond, is a "highly-altered former church".<ref name=gaertner/>
On January 2, 2009, twenty-six businesses located at 500 Route 1 were destroyed in an [[arson]] attack. The entire block, located near to the point at which Route 1 passes over Main Street, was pulled down shortly thereafter. Damage was estimated to be between $2 million and $4 million. Everett Stickney, of [[Exeter, New Hampshire]], was convicted of starting the fire, along with another one in [[York, Maine]], later that evening.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z8I0WW "Arsonist could get 20 years in prison"] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) - ''[[Portland Press Herald]]'', November 12, 2009</ref> On November 12, 2009, Stickney was sentenced to an eleven-and-a-half-year [[prison]] term and ordered to pay $3.7 million in [[Damages|compensation]].<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z5muSV "Arsonist to serve 11 years, pay $3.7M to businesses displaced in Yarmouth, York"] Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2) - ''The Forecaster'', November 12, 2009</ref> The building was replaced in 2008 and several businesses have moved in.
===School Street===
School Street, which runs beside and behind the library, takes the motorist on and off Route 1 South.
In 1889, Dr. Herbert Merrill had a dental practice in the rear of his house in Brickyard Hollow on Main Street. It has since been moved to School Street.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.44</ref> It is the building now occupied by InSight Eyecare on the InterMed campus.
===York Street===
York Street takes the motorist on and off Route 1 North.
Number 17 dates to before 1900, while number 22 was built around the 1850s.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Upper Village==
[[File:Handy Andy's, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|Andy's Handy Store, at the corner of Main and East Elm Streets in the Upper Village, looking east from Latchstring Park in 2008. Known locally as ''Handy Andy's'', it was the location of the first phone call between Yarmouth and Portland<ref>According to a plaque inside the store</ref>]]
[[File:Handy Andy's.jpg|thumb|200px|The same view in 1947]]
In contrast to today, people who lived near "the Corner" of Elm and Main Streets in the 19th century would not think of shopping at the Lower Falls end of the latter thoroughfare. For over 150 years, much of the retail activity in the Upper Village occurred in the area of the old brick stores at 355–359 Main Street. Some of the oldest buildings on Main Street are those on its southern side, clustered between the Catholic and Baptist churches.<ref name=p26>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.26</ref> The Daniel Wallis house at 330 Main Street, for example, was built around 1810.<ref name=p26/> Around the middle of the 19th century, Captain Cushing Prince, Jr. (b. 1786, d. 1869)<ref name=cemeteryrecords/> moved here from his historic house on Greely Road.<ref name=p26/>
===Main Street===
Businesses and residences in the Upper Village and the area around the intersection of Main and Elm Street, which officially became known as Yarmouthville in 1882, included (roughly from west to east):
[[File:Upper Village, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|This brick building, built in 1862 by Samuel Fogg and Ansel Loring, used to house (from left to right) Marston's dry goods store and Leone R. Cook's apothecary]]
[[File:Main Street 3, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|The southern side of Main Street, looking southeast from Main and East Elm Streets. The building on the right, formerly Samuel True York's grocery store, no longer exists]]
[[File:Yarmouth_Upper_Village.jpg|thumb|200px|A 2018 view]]
[[File:Yarmouthville, Yarmouth ME.jpg|thumb|200px|A 1947 view from the Elm Street intersection]]
*A house that stood at the corner of Main and East Elm was moved to 45 Baker Street around 1890<ref name=gaertner>[https://ift.tt/2Z7YVbW Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018] - Yarmouth's town website)</ref>
*In the mid-to-late 1870s, diagonally across from where Handy Andy's now is, was Jeremiah Mitchell's "Temperance House"<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HbXD9G ''Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine'', p. 758]</ref> [[tavern]]. Mitchell died in 1869, aged about 31. The inn's location later became the site of Wilfred W. Dunn's house, then, between 1959 and 1972, Norton's [[Texaco]] gas station. It is now Latchstring Park<ref name=p33>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.33</ref>
*After his death in 1811, the family of Dr. William Parsons moved into a [[American colonial architecture|colonial]] home, built around 1790 by its first occupant, Ebenezer Corliss, where the single-story building now stands at the corner of Main and West Elm Streets. The house was torn down in 1950.<ref name=p32>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.32</ref> The existing building, at 366, although since widened, formerly housed a pool hall, then Harriman's [[IGA (supermarkets)|IGA Foodliner]]
*Sam York's grocery store (located to the east of the Parsons residence in the late 1800s; both now gone)<ref name=p32/>
*Edgar Read Smith's grocery store, which became Turner's Television sales and service business
*Adelaide Abbott's millinery shop (located to the east of York's)<ref name=p32/>
*Post office (located to the east of Abbott's),<ref name=p32/> opened in May 1882. Its first postmistress was W.L. Haskell, followed by Joseph Raynes in 1886. He remained in the position for 28 years, leaving the post in 1914 to Beecher True Lane. Anna Tibbetts Douglass followed in 1919. This branch was closed in 1928, and a village carrier system began at the central office<ref name=rowe1936/>
*George H. Jefferd's harness shop (located to the east of the post office)<ref name=p32/>
*Isaac Johnson's barbershop (located above Jefferd's)<ref name=p32/>
*At the corner of Main and East Elm Streets stood a nail mill in 1807. (East Elm Street was known for a period as Mill Street, before today's incarnation was given its name.) In 1891, what was then Nathaniel Foster's pottery was torn down, after about fifty years in existence, and a new building was constructed. Since then, more than thirty different business or owners have set up here, including, between 1906 and 1935, Arthur and Harry Storer's hardware store, Storer Bros.<ref name=p31>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.31</ref>
*John Ambrose Griffin's hardware store<ref name=p30>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.30</ref>
*Joel Brooks' pottery (today's 40 East Elm Street, which was then named Gooches' Lane), was in business between 1851 and 1888
*Andy's Handy Store – named for original proprietor, Leland "Andy" Anderson. In 1935, a 31-year-old Anderson combined the two wooden buildings of Griffin's and an adjacent grocery store (which sold produce "at Portland prices").<ref name=p30/> Now named "Handy's", it became occupied by OTTO Pizza in 2014<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z6nfeb "New owners plan to transform Andy's Handy Store in Yarmouth"] - ''Portland Press Herald'', December 16, 2014</ref>
*William Marston's [[dry goods]] store (founded in 1859; closed circa 1968)<ref name=p21>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.21</ref>
*Located next door to Marston's was Leone R. Cook's apothecary, where Frank Bucknam was an apprentice<ref name=p21/>
*Harold Roy "Snap" Moxcey's barbershop, which he ran with his father Clarence ("Pop"), was located at the corner of Main and Center Streets, across from the Baptist church.<ref name=p27>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.27</ref> The building was moved around 1990 and now stands on the property of 463 Lafayette Street, across from the Ledge Cemetery.<ref name=gaertner/> Ernest C. Libby was an employee with the Moxceys for thirteen years before opening his own barber shop on Center Street
*To the right of the barbershop was Claude Kingsley's candy-distribution business
*Larry's Barber Shop appeared on Center Street (formerly known as Woodbury's Lane) later
*20 Center Street is the home of Winslow Station, which served as the town's only fire station from 1953 until the mid-1990s. It was used by the fire department until 2004.<ref name=gaertner/> The building, which was constructed in 1930, is dedicated to Carl H. Winslow, who was the fire chief for forty years<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Hbe1Ht "Yarmouth seeks proposals for historic fire station"] - ''The Forecaster'', June 28, 2017</ref>
[[File:Daniel_Wallis_House.jpeg|thumb|200px|The Daniel Wallis House, at 330 Main Street]]
*Another barber shop, beside the Baptist church, was owned by Charlie Reinsborough
*Dr. Nat Barker and his wife, Catherine, lived on the corner of South Street in the 1930s and 1940s<ref name=p27/>
*Coombs Bros. (Albert and George) [[candy]] and grocery store (located at 298 Main Street in the building between Railroad Crossing and South Street in a different construction than what is standing today). Bert set up the town's telephone service in 1895.<ref name=Aldredge/> In 1909, he established a [[Ford]] dealership on South Street,<ref name=p23/> which was laid out in 1848 as part of Yarmouth's first modern housing development.<ref name=p24>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.24</ref> Farm land was given over to house lots and sold to merchants and sea captains, such as Ansel Loring and Perez Blanchard.<ref name=cemeteryrecords/><ref name=p24/> Frederick Gore (d. 1930),<ref name=cemeteryrecords/> manager of the Forest Paper Company, lived at the corner of South and Cumberland Streets (in what is now 67 South Street) with his wife, Angie.<ref name=p24/> Elmer Ring's "[[launderette|washerette]]" later stood in the Coombs location, and it was he who changed the roofline and façade of the building. He also ran a hardware store, a heating and plumbing service, and a coal yard.
*Captain Eben York's mansion at 326 Main Street (now occupied by the Parish Office of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church next door). Father Joseph Quinn held services in the barn until it burned in 1913<ref name="America 2002 p.25">''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.25</ref>
*339 Main Street was the home of local miller Amassa Baker, built in 1800<ref name=gaertner/>
*Where Peachy's Smoothie Cafe stands today at 301 Main Street was, from 1905 until 1913, Bernstein's Department Store. Robert Bernstein, born in Germany, saw his business burn down in July 1913.<ref name=Aldredge/> He reopened the store in a new location across the street
*St. Lawrence House – a hotel built, where the [[Mobil]] gas station near Camp Hammond stands today, to take advantage of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroads coming through town. Circa 1872, it was renamed the Baker House, after its owner Jeremiah Baker (he previously lived at what is now 35 East Main Street, overlooking his shipyard, between 1857 and around 1871).<ref name=gaertner/> It was the first of several name changes, including Royal River Hotel (when owned by O.E. Lowell in the late 19th century),<ref name=tradejournal/> U.S. House, Westcustogo House and Yarmouth Hotel.<ref name=Aldredge/> The expected tourists never materialized, and the hotel burned down in 1926.<ref name="p21"/> Grange Hall stood behind the hotel. Lowell Hall was in the second story of the stable
*J.O. Durgan's [[daguerreotype]] salon (located just to the east of the hotel; later Gad Hitchcock's coffin and casket showroom)
*Alson Brawn's jewelry shop (at what was then 73 Main Street; formerly Sidney Bennett's Yarmouth Market, now Hancock Lumber)<ref name="p27"/>
*309 Main Street, at the eastern corner of Mill Street, is an 1850s–1880s house<ref name=gaertner/>
An elm tree in front of Marston's store had a bulletin board nailed to it, upon which local residents posted, as early as 1817, public notices, circus posters and satirical comments about town affairs.<ref name=p21/> Like almost all of Yarmouth's elms, it became afflicted by Dutch elm disease and was cut down in 1980.<ref name=p21/>
A hospital, run by Mrs Gilbert, was on the site now occupied by Coastal Manor nursing home on West Main Street.
Prior to the [[Presumpscot River]] being bridged at Martin's Point in Falmouth Foreside, West Elm Street was a direct route to Portland and, hence, a key [[stagecoach]] stop and why it was also known as the "Portland road" (also, during a period, Chapel Street). A large barn was built beside Mitchell's tavern to house horses.<ref name=p33/> The house of Richmond Cutter still stands at the southern corner of Church and West Elm Streets.<ref name=p33/>
Two doors further south from Cutter's house, a Methodist church was built on West Elm Street in 1898 to mark a revival of the religion. The church was disbanded thirty years later.<ref name=p33/> The building, now painted yellow, has been converted into a residence.
A Catholic church was built on Cumberland Street in 1879. The location was chosen out of fear that it would be vandalized if it was built on Main Street, for Yarmouth was a prevalently Protestant town at the time. The structure still stands as a private home, having moved to 73-75 Cumberland Street, but it is turned sideways to the street.<ref name="America 2002 p.25"/>
A large wooden building located where the at the intersection of West Main Street and Sligo Road, next to the old brick schools, served as the town hall between 1833 and 1910. It was here that the 1849 debates took place that led to Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth.<ref>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.8</ref>
The school buildings mentioned above were in use throughout the 1980s. In 1847, teacher William Osgood had 74 students; as such, a second school was built beside the original soon after.<ref name=p36>''Images of America: Yarmouth'', Alan M. Hall (Arcadia, 2002), p.36</ref>
Further out on West Main Street is an imposing Italianate mansion that was built for Captain Reuben Merrill (b. 1818, d. 1875) in 1858.<ref name=p36/> Merrill, who was married to Hannah Elizabeth Blanchard and had four children, was killed while aboard his [[clipper]] ''Champlain'' when it ran [[aground]] near the [[Farallon Islands]], [[San Francisco]].<ref name=p36/> After making sure his crew was safely aboard lifeboats, Merrill was hit by a piece of falling [[rigging]], fell overboard and drowned. Neither Merrill's body nor the ship's haul of railroad iron was ever recovered. His eldest son and [[first mate]], Osborne (b. 1849), witnessed his father's death and never went to sea again, bringing to an end the family's seafaring ways. In April 2011, his three-story, 15-room mansion at 233 West Main became the headquarters of Maine Preservation.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2ZaBSx4 "The house that Reuben built"] - ''Portland Press Herald'', July 1, 2011</ref>
===Baker Street===
Baker Street, near the Baptist Meeting House, connects Church and Cumberland Streets.
Number 22 is believed to have been moved from near 233 West Main Street. It was on its current site by 1859.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 40 dates to 1850.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 45 was moved from the corner of Main and East Elm around 1890.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Center Street===
[[File:1777_house,_Yarmouth,_Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|This circa-1777 home stands at 33 Center Street. It was originally the home of Dr. Ammi Mitchell]]
[[File:Samuel_Baker_Yarmouth.jpeg|thumb|left|Captain Samuel Baker's house, at 32 Center Street]]
Center Street is off the southern side of Main Street and connects to Cumberland Street.
32 Center Street, a brick side-hall [[Greek Revival]], is formerly the home of Captain Samuel Baker.<ref name=gaertner/>
The circa-1777 home of Dr. Ammi Mitchell stands at 33 Center Street.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Church Street===
Church Street runs between West Elm Street and Hillside Street, ending at the Baptist Meeting House.
John and Julia Dunn ran a store at 3 Church Street.<ref name=gaertner/>
Reuben Byram built the building at 6 Church Street in 1804.<ref name=gaertner/>
It is believed that Otis Briggs Pratt built the house at 14 Church Street, on land owned by Silas Merrill, between 1807 and 1812. It also served as the homestead for the potter Nathaniel Foster and remained in the family until 1910.<ref name=gaertner/>
An 1804 Federal-style house stands at 21 Church.<ref name=gaertner/>
The Old John Corliss House, at number 35, dates from 1800.
Reverend Thomas Green (b. 1761, d. 1814),<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Hdfvku "Rev Thomas Green"] - Georgetown Historical Society</ref> the first pastor at the nearby Baptist church, lived at 40 Church.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Cumberland Street===
Cumberland Street runs between South Street and Hillside Street, crossing West Elm Street en route.
Captain Joseph Bucknam lived at 3 Cumberland Street, a home built by Jeremiah Loring.<ref name=gaertner/>
===East Elm Street===
[[File:East Elm Street, Yarmouth, Maine.jpg|thumb|200px|East Elm Street, from its junction with Main Street. The horse trough in view here now stands at the intersection of Main and Center Streets]]
East Elm Street, the right-hand turn at today's Handy's, leads to North Road. It cross the Royal River at the park just beyond the Fourth Falls and passes Royal Junction at Depot Road.
92 East Elm Street was formerly a mill workers' boarding house, then a maternity hospital.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Hillside Street===
Formerly known as Brimstone Hill or Byram's Hill, Hillside Street is where the Baptist Meeting House stands. One of the longest roads in Yarmouth, it connects West Main Street to Greely Road in Cumberland.
48 Hillside was built in 1858, according to one source, while another places it in the 1810s.<ref name=gaertner/>
===Mill Street===
Not to be confused with an early name for East Elm Street, today's incarnation used to be the main access road to the mill at the Third Falls.
Henry Caswell, a blacksmith, lived at the brick number 31 Mill Street, across the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railroad (then the Grand Trunk Railway). His business was directly across the street on what is now greenspace. The house was later owned by the Forest Paper Company for fifty years.<ref name=gaertner/>
===South Street===
[[File:1_South_Street_Yarmouth_Maine.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|1 South Street, built in 1840]]
South Street is off the southern side of Main Street and connects to West Elm Street, either directly or via Cumberland Street.
1 South Street, the former home of Dr. Nat Barker, was built in 1840.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Zc8Mxs 1 South St, Yarmouth, ME 04096] - Redfin</ref>
10 South Street was formerly Alec Mansfield's garage.<ref name=gaertner/>
Dr. Lewis Whitney built the Greek Revival number 25 in 1849. It was purchased the following year by sea captain Joseph R. Curtis, whose family it remained in until 1983.<ref name=gaertner/>
Numbers 33 and 37 were originally built jointly; the lot was split in 1858.<ref name=gaertner/>
Ship captain Perez Blanchard lived at number 49.<ref name=gaertner/>
Frederic Gore, the manager of Forest Paper Company, lived at number 62.<ref name=gaertner/>
George Coombs, a partner in Coombs Brothers Confectionary Company, lived next door at number 74.<ref name=gaertner/>
===West Elm Street===
West Elm Street was an early route into Portland, hence one of its former names was "Portland road". It was also known as Chapel Street for a period.
22 West Elm Street dates to around 1870.<ref name=gaertner/>
Potters David and Robert Cleaves lived at the Greek Revival number 30.<ref name=gaertner/>
35 West Elm was dedicated as a Methodist church in 1898. The church disbanded in 1928 and the building became a meeting place for a fraternal group. It was later converted to a residence.<ref name=gaertner/> Back across the street, at number 36, mason Reuben Byram lived in this three-story home.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 43 dates to around 1875.<ref name=gaertner/>
Jeremiah Loring was the original owner of number 52.<ref name=gaertner/> Number 53 dates to the mid-19th century<ref name=gaertner/>
Reuben Byram built number 58 for his daughter Louisa.<ref name=gaertner/>
The Greek Revival number 62, whose 1874 barn is accessed from Center Street, dates from the 1840s.<ref name=gaertner/>
65 West Elm is circa 1850.<ref name=gaertner/>
At the northwestern corner of the Cumberland Street intersection stands number 73. It was built by Leonard Williams around 1863 and remained in his family for the next ninety years or so.<ref name=gaertner/>
Captain Alfred Small lived in the 1870s-built number 95.<ref name=gaertner/>
At the northwestern corner of the intersection with Deering Street stands number 111, designed by [[John Calvin Stevens]] and Albert Winslow Cobb for Captain Claudius Lawrence.<ref name=gaertner/>
===West Main Street===
West Main Street (still [[Maine State Route 115|Route 115]]) leads into North Yarmouth.
The original owner of number 5, the first house on the northern side of West Main, was Captain Samuel Drinkwater. It later passed to his brother, Captain Joseph Drinkwater.<ref name=gaertner/>
A 1973 survey dates number 17 to 1807; however, a town assessor says 1860.<ref name=gaertner/>
There are two homes at 20 West Main Street. The first dates to around 1860; the second around 1835.<ref name=gaertner/>
27 West Main Street is circa 1890. In 2009, the owner found a shingle signed by John Calvin Stevens.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 43 was built for yeoman Matthias Storer around 1802.<ref name=gaertner/>
The Alexander Mills House, at number 54, is circa 1796.<ref name=gaertner/>
Cyrus Kingsley lived at number 57 around 1865.<ref name=gaertner/>
A 1973 survey suggests number 60 was built in 1790.<ref name=gaertner/>
65 West Main Street originates from around 1800.<ref name=gaertner/>
Deacon Jacob Mitchell lived at number 89. It was later owned by Henry Barbour, who operated a dairy farm.<ref name=gaertner/>
There are two brick schools at 117 and 121 West Main, just beyond the Sligo Road intersection. The first, the District Number 4 school, was built around 1841 and repaired in the 1890s. The second building was likely built around 1856. Both schools closed in 1992, when Harrison Middle School opened.<ref name=gaertner/>
124 West Main Street dates to 1810.<ref name=gaertner/>
William M.R. Lunt was the original owner of number 139, circa 1856.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 154, at the eastern corner of Bates Street, dates to around 1880.<ref name=gaertner/>
John Cutter, yeoman and grandson of Ammi, was the original occupant of number 163, circa 1795.<ref name=gaertner/>
190 West Main dates to the early 19th century.<ref name=gaertner/>
A 1973 survey indicates number 195 was constructed in the 1870s.<ref name=gaertner/>
At the eastern corner of the intersection with Fieldstone Drive, number 284, stands a circa-1792 cape.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Mayberry Lane==
Mayberry Lane is off the northern section of Portland Street, most visible if coming from the village because it runs at an angle from where the Lindquist Funeral Home stands.
Number 9 dates from around 1837.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Spring Street==
The final name of [[Maine State Route 88|State Route 88]] as it passes through Yarmouth, Spring Street runs from the East Main Street split to Route 1 at Cumberland Farms.
The northern section of number 19 was formerly the Spring Street Market.<ref name=gaertner/>
At the split of Spring Street and East Main Street stands number 20, a former gas station and hair salon.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 66 was built in 1807, according to the assessor, or in the 1850s, per the Village Improvement Society.<ref name=gaertner/>
The cape at number 67 dates to the late 18th or early 19th century.<ref name=gaertner/> Meanwhile, a survey conducted in the 1970s alleges that number 68, now significantly altered, originates from 1820.<ref name=gaertner/>
The final home before the western section of Bayview Street, number 114, was originally built on Brown's Point, at the eastern end of Bayview, and moved here in 1868.<ref name=gaertner/>
Number 141, past Bayview Street on the eastern side of Spring Street, was formerly the site of Frost's gas station.<ref name=gaertner/> It is now home to a couple of businesses.
==Summer Street==
A side street off West Main Street, connecting to Bates Street.
A 1973 survey dates 14 Summer Street to the 1880s; a town assessor places it in 1910.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Willow Street==
Connects East Main Street to Route 1 opposite the Hannaford plaza.
The first house on the left from East Main Street, number 4, was moved there in 1964 to make way for the parking lot of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Main Street<ref name=gaertner/>
Horace Stubbs, a carpenter, was the original owner of number 26.<ref name=gaertner/>
30 Willow Street was moved to this location from near the corner of East Main Street and Yankee Drive.<ref name=gaertner/>
==Broad Cove==
[[File:Tristram Gilman.jpg|thumb|150px|Headstone of Reverend Tristram Gilman, located near the southern entrance to the Ledge Cemetery]]
The area surrounding Broad Cove, at Yarmouth's southern extremity, contains several historic homes amongst newer builds. Gilman Road, which was laid out in 1780 to give access to Larrabee's Landing, is named for the [[Reverend]] Tristram Gilman,<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HaOcHQ "Gilman, Tristram, 1735-1809. Tristram Gilman sermons and other papers, 1728-1808: Guide"] - Harvard University Library</ref> a New Hampshire native who was the fourth pastor of the nearby Old Ledge Church for forty years – from 1769 until his death. He was the original 1771 occupant of the Gilman Manse house at 463 Lafayette Street, later the home of Merrill Haskell. [[John Calvin Stevens]] was hired to undertake the 1905 renovation of the property.<ref name=gaertner/>
Captain Francis E. Young lived between the two cemeteries. He is buried in the Ledge.
The [[garrison (architecture)|garrison]] number 60, built circa 1730 and directly opposite the Pioneer Cemetery, was the former home of the Ledge Church's first [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]], Reverend Ammi Ruhamah Cutter. (Cutter was succeeded in the role by Englishman Nicholas Loring, who is buried in the Ledge cemetery.) Perez B. Loring lived there in the mid-19th century. For the second half of the 20th century, it was home to Charles and Anita Stickney, who purchased it from Henry P. Frank.<ref name=rowe1936/> Charles Stickney bought his father's company, Deering Ice Cream, in 1956. It had twenty locations in three states in its peak years.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z5mu5n "Charles E. "Stick" Stickney Jr. Obituary"] - ''Portland Press Herald'', December 8, 2011</ref> He died in 2008 at the age of 89; Anita died eight years later, aged 90.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2H90tfE "ANITA (COOPER) STICKNEY"] - Legacy.com</ref>
120 Gilman Road, near the northeastern corner of the intersection, was built in 1773. Its barn is mid-19th century.<ref name=gaertner/>
Moving east, crossing Princes Point Road, eight historic homes exist in the stretch leading up to Cousins Island. On the left (number 146) is formerly that of Captain Joseph Drinkwater and his wife, Anna. The house was built in 1844, and his family owned it until 1873. Captain Sumner Drinkwater purchased it in 1902, and it remained in his family until 1979, ending 107 consecutive years of Drinkwater ownership.<ref name=gaertner/> Next, on the right, is 161, once the home of Samuel Allen Prince. Further down, on the left at 210, opposite the entrance to the Fels-Groves Preserve, is a circa-1817 brick house once inhabited by Captain Reuben Prince (b. 1792, d. 1870) and his wife, Deborah Prince (nee Drinkwater; b. 1794, d. 1878), the parents of neighbor Samuel Allen. Upon Reuben's death, the house passed to his son, Harlan, and remained in his family until his death. Arthur and Josie Fels bought the homestead in 1907.
==Larrabee's Landing==
[[File:Charles_Bucknam_House.jpeg|thumb|200px|left|The former home of Charles Bucknam at 68 Larrabee's Landing]]
[[File:Larrabees_Landing.jpeg|thumb|150px|right|Larrabee's Landing looking east, with Callen Point on the right]]
Three homes exist around the Gilman and Larrabee's Landing Road triangle. First, an 1817-built house on the left, is formerly that of Mrs. Drinkwater. Next, beyond Burbank Lane, at 38 Larrabee's Landing Road, is the former home of Mrs. Bucknam. The original part of the house dates from 1835 and is believed to have been expanded by William Bucknam for his mother. It later became the home of New Hampshire natives Nelson and Fannie Burbank, for whom Burbank Lane was built. They owned and operated Burbank Farm from 1913 to 1936. The house of Charles Bucknam, at number 68, is the final home before Royall Point Road. It was built in 1835.
The only house originally on Royall Point Road was the [[farmhouse]] at the current number 70. Nearby Callen Point was where Captain Walter Gendall (d. 1688),<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z7T7PJ "Captain Walter Gendall: A Biographical Sketch"] - Doctor Charles E. Banks (1880)</ref> an Englishman,<ref name=rowe1936/> was shot while taking supplies to his troops building a fort on the eastern side of the river. There was a wharf which served the farm.
At the end of Barn Road, which is off Highland Farms Road (formerly Vaill Point Road), is Parker Point's (formerly Mann's Point), named for Yarmouth's first inn owner, James Parker (b. 1689, d. 1732).<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HcSjTH "Colonial Tavern Keepers"]</ref> This was home to one of the garrisons set up to protect against Native Indian attacks.
==Princes Point==
68 Princes Point Road, located just north of Treatment Plant Road, is the former schoolhouse of District Number 2. It was converted to a home around 1940.<ref name=gaertner/>
The 1831-built home at 420 Princes Point Road, a couple of hundred yards before the Morton Road intersection, is the former residence of Captain Nicholas Drinkwater, Sr. Captain Sumner Drinkwater (b. 1859, d. 1942) was born in this house.
Mrs. Snell lived at the southeastern corner of the Old Town Landing Road and Morton Road intersection. Morton Road is named for Harry Newbert Morton, who built the first house on the street.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z97qnl "Evelyn Yates Obituary - Yarmouth, ME | Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram"] - ''Portland Press Herald'', March 29, 2017</ref> Morton, a lobsterman, moved to Yarmouth in 1929 and remained there until his death at the age of 89.
A 1944 map shows Bucknam Point Road and the unnamed road slightly to the west that Umpire Way connects to. These are both off Morton Road.<ref name=unh/>
In the early 1880s, Princes Point began to develop as a summer colony. For several years it had become a favorite camping spot for the villagers and the inhabitants of the inland parts of the town who came here for [[clam bake]]s and picnics. The town road ended at the John Allen Drinkwater barn, and here a large gate opened into the pasture which included the two points now known as Princes and Sunset Points. Captain Rotheus Drinkwater also had a home a stone's throw away. Captain John Cleaves fenced off a spot on his farm, at today's number 581, for the same purpose.<ref name=rowe1936/>
The first cottage was built in 1884. It was later known as Battery Point Cottage. Others soon built nearby, including Dr. Herbert A. Merrill, Leone R. Cook, George H. Jefferds, Thomas and Nellie Johnston and Wilfred W. Dunn. The first to take up a lot on the western promontory now known as Sunset Point was Samuel O. Carruthers.<ref name=rowe1936/>
In 1894 a wharf was built, and the steamer ''Madeline'' made two trips daily from Portland, stopping off at the Cumberland and Falmouth Foresides. The short-lived electric railroad running the same route forced the discontinuation of the service.<ref name=rowe1936/>
In 1899, a four-story hotel of about thirty rooms, named Gem of the Bay, was built on Princes Point by Cornelius Harris.<ref name=rowe1936/> It was destroyed by fire in October 1900 after two seasons in business.<ref name=Aldredge/>
==Drinkwater Point==
Named for Captain Theophilus Drinkwater, son of Allen and Hannah Drinkwater. His house, built in 1791 by his grandfather, Nicholas, stood at the southern end of the road bearing his name.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HbkOkm "Old Times: a magazine devoted to the preservation and publication of documents relating to the early history of North Yarmouth, Maine"]</ref> Theophilus was married to Louisa Drinkwater. They had three children — Cornelia Amanda, Hannah Gray and Ferdinand.
Captain James Munroe Bucknam's 115-acre farm<ref>[https://ift.tt/2Z9M6xT "Cumberland County, Maine - Captain James Monroe Bucknam"] - Raynorshyn.com</ref> extended west to where Bucknam Point Road is today. His house is today's number 215, which was built in 1740 and later became the main building of the Homewood Inn development, whose property extended to the north and west. Bucknam wed Caroline Pierce Drinkwater in 1843 and they had five children together — Nicholas, Clarence Leland, Caroline Augusta, Clarence Loraine and James M., Jr. They were married for 26 years, until 1869, Caroline's death. He married for a second time the following year, to Abbie Frances Twombly, with whom he had another two children — Caroline Prince Bucknam and Albion Levi.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2HaImGh "Genealogical and Family History of the STATE OF MAINE" - DunhamWilcox.net]</ref> Nine years after Abbie's death, he married for a third time, to Edna A. Marston, widow of William.
Seaborne Drive and Channel Point Road appeared on a 1944 map of the town, as did the Homewood Inn development,<ref name=unh/> which attracted guests from 1912 to 1992.<ref name="Hall"/>
==References==
==External links==
*Maps of Yarmouth
**[https://ift.tt/2Z6ngif 1741]
**[https://ift.tt/2Hbd7ea 1871 (i)]
**[https://ift.tt/2Z44VCA 1871 (ii)]
**[https://ift.tt/2Hb5nJ3 1894]
**[https://ift.tt/2Z6ngif 1944]
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