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Bridge Street (Yarmouth, Maine)

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17 Bridge Street was built in 1852 and used as the parsonage for the First Parish Church between 1862 and 1997. Meanwhile, 21 Bridge Street was built in 1851 as a duplex for mill owners Mitchell and Loring.
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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
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Sparhawk Mill is at number 81. This brick mill was built in the 1840s, replacing a wooden mill dating to 1817, but its top half was rebuilt in 1855 after a fire.
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The 1840-constructed former home of George G. Loring, built by mill-owner Phillip H. Kimball, stands on the hill overlooking the falls at 100 Bridge Street.
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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
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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.
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The Second Falls around 1907, when an iron bridge crossed the Royal River and the Sparhawk Mill's tower had been completed
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on the right. The bridge was the predecessor to the iron structure that was built around ten years later
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43 Bridge Street was built in 1844 and became part of Royal River Manufacturing Company in 1871.
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was in place around the turn of the 20th century, replacing a structure that dated to 1846.
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In 1848, Philip Kimball built the house at 125 Bridge, which is today's Charron residence.
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The Royal River rushing by the Sparhawk Mill on Bridge Street, en route to the First Falls
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80 and, on the hill, 100 Bridge Street, the former home of George G. Loring
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Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine 1636-1936: A History
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Architectural Survey Yarmouth, ME (Phase One, September, 2018
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Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine
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Looking north along Bridge Street around 1890, with
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43°48′05″N 70°10′53″W / 43.801341°N 70.181511°W / 43.801341; -70.181511

Sparhawk Mill
Yarmouth, Maine
Main Street
Yarmouth, Maine
Main Street
State Route 115
Royal River
Second Falls (Yarmouth, Maine)
Second Falls
Sparhawk Mill
truss bridge

Historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine


William Hutchinson Rowe
Francis H. Fassett
Boarding houses
weavers
seamstresses
bobbin



William Hutchinson Rowe
ISBN
0738599034

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