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Union Memorial Gardens Veterans Monument

North Face

Dedicated to those who served on our United States Navy

West Face

Dedicated to those who served on our United States Air Force

South Face

Dedicated to those who served on our United States Marines

East Face

Dedicated to those who served on our United ...

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Saint Patrick's Church

Established 1833

by Bishop Leo De Neckere, C.M.

This church, completed in 1840

during the pastorate of

Father James I. Mullon,

is the oldest parish church

outside the French Quarter.

In 1850

St. Patrick's served

as pro-cathedral

while the St. ...

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A Stone Fort

was built in 1693 rear of this

place near the banks of the Saco

River as a refuge from the Indians

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (Maine Route 9) and Emery Street, on the right when traveling west on Main ...

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Samuel Brannan and the Gold Rush

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Saco native Samuel Brannan became one of the country’s richest men promoting the California gold rush, and one of the most colorful figures in California history, but he wasn’t a gold miner and he died in ...

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Jacob Cochran, 1782-1836

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Cochranism was the name given to the religious sect led by Jacob Cochran in the years 1816 to 1819, before this charismatic preacher was convicted and imprisoned for four years on charges of “gross lewd and ...

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Spanish War and Philippine Insurrection Memorial

1898 - 1902

This plaque is made from bronze taken

from Battleship Maine when salvaged

from Havana harbor in 1912

In Memoriam

U.S.S. Maine

Destroyed in Havana Harbor

February 15th 1898

This tablet is cast from metal

recovered from the U.S.S. Maine

Dedicated Nov. 11, 1961

Marker is at the intersection ...

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Seminole County World War Monument

(Base: front side)Dedicated

to

the Memory of

the brave sons of

Seminole County

who laid their lives

on the sacrificial altar

of

Democracy

in the World War

1914 — 1918

(Base: right side)Erected and presented

to

Seminole County

by

Frank ...

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Dr. Laura Black Stickney, 1879-1961

Saco Main Street Museum Walk

Dr. Laura Black Stickney promoted public health, women’s suffrage, and ran for mayor during her 50 years of Saco civic leadership.

Born September 8, 1879 in Porter, Maine, Laura May Black learned to read in a one-room ...

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Perryville Dam

1740 - 1935

It was known as Butterworth Falls in the colonial days. Deacon Thomas Carpenter and later the Perry family maintained the saw-gristmill-turning shop here for almost 200 years

Marker is on Danforth st near Perryville Rd.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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Indian Oven Rock

About 200 feet south of this spot is a natural oven shaped hole in a rock. According to local tradition, Indians used this as a bake oven and to parch their corn.

Marker is on Homestead Ave., on the left when ...

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