Watching The Curve

Caption of drawing at top left The GE P42DC produced by General Electric Transportation Systems.

Caption of drawing at top right Norfolk Southern SD40-Es usually come up in pairs. And often on both ends of long freight trains going up hill. ...

Welcome to Thomaston, Maine, the Town That Went to Sea

The Museum in the Streets

Thomaston is known for its historic white houses. Both Main and Knox Streets are on the National Historic Register. Of the slightly more than 700 homes in town, approximately eighty-five percent are more than one hundred ...

Citizen’s National Bank

First bank in

community – located

on the main floor

of this building

1908

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street and Schneider Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Main Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Water Tower

Was designed by the Architectural Firm of Holabird and Roche and is a classic example of Military Architecture. It was built in 1891 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior ...

"The First of Patriots - The Best of Men"

Commodore John Barry (1745-1803) was born in County Wexford, Ireland, but by age 15 called Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home. He commanded several Continental Navy ships during the Revolutionary War and won decisive victories over the British. In 1794, Barry received appointment ...

Battle of Milton

On March 20, 1863, a brigade of Union infantry took a position on this ridge and held off repeated attacks by General John H. Morgan's Confederate cavalry. The 1500 Federals, under the command of Colonel Hall, inflicted heavy casualties on ...

Robinson Memorial Gate

In Memory of

Franklin C. Robinson

of the class of 1873 for thirty six

years teacher of Bowdoin men

and in Memory of his wife

Ella Maria Tucker Robinson

Marker is at the intersection of Maine Street and Bath Road (Maine Route 24), on the left ...

Confederate Navy Yard, Saffold

At Saffold, “accessible by steamboats from all points on the river”, David S. Johnston operated the Southern Confederate States Navy Yard. Here the gunboat Chattahoochee was built under contract signed October 19, 1861. Lt. Catesby ap R. Jones, CSN, formerly ...

Confederate Field Hospital

Battle of Mill Springs

This is the site of the Confederate Hospital used by Confederate surgeons after the Battle of Mill Springs. The site is being preserved with the help of a Federal grant from the Land and Water Conservation Fund, ...

Elgin National Watch Company

From 1866 to 1966 this site was occupied by the Elgin National Watch Company. This was the first watch factory built west of the Alleghenies and grew to become the world's largest. During its lifetime over 60 million 'Elgin' watches ...