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DOCUMENTS
• 1907 Souvenir of Pittsfield, ME
• Milestones & Memories
• Pittsfield Dates
• Pittsfield on the Sebasticook
• The Woolen Industry of Pittsfield
• Histories, Music, Poems, etc.
• PHS Photo Calendar-1994
• PHS Photo Calendar-2005
• PHS Photo Calendar-2006
• Maps
PHS PHOTO COLLECTION
BUSINESS
• Businesses-2005
• Businesses-Past
• Woolen Mill
Photos
• Harry Cornforth slides
• Lancey House
MUNICIPAL
• Cemeteries
• Community Theatre
• R.R. Depot
• Library
• Other Municipal
Facilities
• Parks
• Schools
PEOPLE
• Pres. Eisenhower's 1955 visit
• People of Note
• Margaret Chase Smith
ORGANIZATIONS
• Churches
• Organizations
VIEWS OF THE TOWN
• Fires & Floods
• Bud Homstead photos
• Houses
• Mysteries
• Mill Pond
• Sebasticook River
• Streets
• Tour of Pittsfield, 1972
• Wide & Aerial Views
THE PERSONAL TOUCH
• Write Your History
• Land & House histories
• Personal Memories of Pittsfield
• Resource Websites
Welcome to the Pittsfield on the Sebasticookby Sanger Mills Cook
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Pittsfield on the Sebasticook List of Illustrations | |
| Home of Moses Martin | 18.a |
| Moses Martin Marker Donated by DAR | 18.b |
| Record of First Town Meeting | 19 |
| Memorials - Early Settlers | 34 |
| Pittsfield Village - 1860 | 40.1 |
| Pittsfield Township - 1860 | 40.2 |
| Pittsfield Village - 1880 | 40.3 |
| Pittsfield Township - 1880 | 40.4 |
| Railroad Spur Track to Gravel Pits: 1854 | 56.1a |
| Penobscot & Kennebec Railroad: 1854 | 56.1b |
| Universalist Church - Circa 1875 | 56.1c |
| MCI Founders | 56.2a |
| MCI - Circa 1870 | 56.2b |
| MCI bell donated by Harry Lancey 1877 | 56.3a |
| MCI Principals | 56.3b |
| MCI, Student Body - Circa 1870 | 56.3c |
| Grammar School - Site of First Baptist Church | 56.4a |
| Lancey House, - Circa 1880 | 56.4b |
| MCI Campus - Circa 1880 | 56.4c |
| Great Fire 1881 | 64.1a-c |
| Advertiser, First - Page 1 | 64.2 |
| Advertiser, First - Page 2 | 64.3 |
| Advertiser, First - Page 3 | 64.4 |
| Advertiser, First - Page 4 | 64.5 |
| C. B. Haskell, Editor | 64.6a |
| Park Street - Mid 80's | 64.6b |
| Mill Pond: Looking South | 64.7a |
| Church, Looking North from | 64.7b |
| Sebasticook Old bridge 1875-1885 | 64.7c |
| Main St., West Side - Looking South | 64.8a |
| Main St., West Side - Looking North | 64.8b |
| Main St., East Side | 64.8c |
| Middle St. | 64.8d |
| Carriage Shop 1875-1885 (See Picture 120.9) | 64.8e |
| McMaster's residence | 80.1a |
| Looking East from MCI | 80.1b |
| Looking North from MCI | 80.1c |
| Looking Northwest from MCI: | |
| Pleasant St - Hartland Avenue | 80.1d |
| South Main Street: Looking North | 80.2a |
| Park St. | 80.2b |
| Dr. J. C. Manson's Residence | 80.2c |
| Mill Pond: Looking North (1880-1900 | 80.2d |
| Union Hall: 1885 | 80.3a |
| Main St., East Side: 1876 | 80.3b |
| Davis Store - 1885: West Side Main St | |
| (Later - Drug Store) | 80.3c |
| Dexter-Sampson-Libby Lumber Mill - | |
| Looking North - No Standpipe | 80.4a |
| Pittsfield Electric Co. | 80.4b |
| Pioneer Mill, 1880-1900 | 80.4c |
| Hunnewell Bridge | 80.5a |
| Conant Pant Factory - Railroad St | |
| (Now Library St) | 80.5b |
| Hitching Post (Can be seen near | |
| site of Conant Factory) | 80.5c |
| MCI Baseball Team 1887 | |
| (Defeated all Maine Colleges) | 80.6a |
| Cook's Orchestra - 1890 | 80.6b |
| Hathorn Homestead (Stock Farm) | 80.7 |
| Dedication of Library - 1904 | 80.8a |
| Dedication of Library program | 80.8b |
| Capt. Parson's Steamer Docked at Waverly - 1903 | 80.8c |
| The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 - Page 1 | 88.1 |
| The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 - Page 2 | 88.2 |
| The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 - Page 3 | 88.3 |
| The Pittsfield Advertiser, April 11, 1895 - Page 4 | 88.4 |
| The Pittsfield Advertiser, Nov. 1, | |
| 1906: Lancey House Fire - Page 1 | 88.5 |
| Lancey House Before the Fire | 88.6a |
| Men Who Fought the Lancey House Fire | 88.6b |
| Lancey House in Ruins | 88.6c |
| Lancey House, Five Years After Fire | 88.7a |
| Libby's Drug Store - 1907(In 1960, | |
| Humphrey's Drug) | 88.7b |
| Pittsfield Poultry Farm - | |
| Frank W. Briggs, Owner 1907 | 88.7c |
| Pittsfield Electric Co. - 1907 | 88.8a |
| Bryant and Company - 1906 | 88.8b |
| First Baptist Church - 1907 | 88.8c |
| Pastor Olin Tracy | 88.8d |
| Church, Universalist - 1907 | 104.1a |
| St. Agnes Church | 104.1b |
| Methodist Church - 1907 (Manson St.) | 104.1c |
| Pittsfield National Bank - 1907 | 104.2a |
| Pittsfield National Bank Officers - 1907 | 104.2b |
| Main St. - 1907 | 104.2c |
| Main Central Railroad Station and | |
| Express Office - 1907 | 104.3a |
| Hunter-McMaster Store - Site of | |
| Central Maine Oil Company | 104.3b |
| George H. Hunter and A. P. McMaster | 104.3c |
| George H. Hunter | 104.3d |
| A. P. McMaster | 104.3e |
| Tilton House - Park St. - 1907 | 104.4a |
| Lancey Homestead - 1907 | 104.4b |
| Dr. E. C. Bryant | 104.5a |
| Dr. E. C. Bryant Homestead - 1907 | 104.5b |
| Home of William McGilvery - 1907 | 104.5c |
| Oramel Murray, Postmaster - 1907 | 104.6a |
| McMaster residence 1907 - Site of Manson House | 104.6b |
| Residence of Frank W. Briggs - 1907 | 104.6c |
| Funeral Procession - 1910 - David “Mart” Parks | 104.7a |
| Main St. Fire - 1911 | 104.7b |
| Main St. Fire - 1912 | 104.7c |
| MCI - 1910 | 104.8a |
| MCI Principals (1910) | 104.8b |
| MCI Boys' Dormitory - 1910 | 104.8c |
| Pittsfield Centennial Celebration Program | 120.1 |
| Militia - 1911 | 120.2a |
| Parade - 1912 | 120.2b |
| Patriotic Ceremonies - 1912 | 120.2c |
| Ready for Centennial Parade | 120.3a |
| Post Office Moved to New Quarters - 1927 | |
| (Charles H. Bussell - Postmaster) | 120.3b |
| Fire Department - 1924 | 120.3c |
| Haskell Memorial | 120.4a |
| Dobson Memorial | 120.4b |
| McMaster Memorial | 120.4c |
| First National Bank Directors - 1940 | 120.5a |
| Col. Morrill's First Flight | 120.5b |
| Millyard - Flood of 1936 | 120.5c |
| George M. Parks 1865 - 1934 | 120.6 |
| Union Hall 1930-35 | 120.7a |
| Ray H. Badger | 120.7b |
| Inez Severance, Town Clerk Since 1931 | 120.7c |
| George M. Parks Gymnasium | 120.8a |
| Royal Grover, Supt. Grounds and Buildings, | |
| MCI, During 20's, 30's, 40's | 120.8b |
| Pioneer Mill - 1935 | 120.9a |
| Pittsfield Motor Sales - 1935 | |
| (See picture of Carriage Shop, 64.8e) | 120.9b |
| Parks Memorial | 120.10a |
| Manson Memorial | 120.10b |
| Tuesday Club 1950 | 120.11 |
| Kiwanis Entertains MCI Students | 120.12a |
| Dr. Webber, Kiwanis First President | 120.12b |
| Kiwanis Minstrels | 120.12c |
| Waverly Mill Converted to Shoes | 120.13a |
| Northeast Shoe Planning Expansion Program | 120.13b |
| Shoe Manufacturing Comes to Pittsfield | 120.13c |
| Peltoma Acres - 1947 | 120.14a |
| Senator Smith Studies Plans | 120.14b |
| Peltoma Acres Development Today (1960) | 120.14c |
| Waverly Dam - Airport | 120.15a |
| Municipal Airport, Manson Park | 120.15b |
| J. R. Cianchette, and his Plane - 1955 | 120.16a |
| Dow Air Base - 1952 | 120.16b |
| J. R. Cianchette Company Trucks - 1952 | 120.16c |
| Edwards: Signing Contracts - 1956 | 136.1a |
| Edwards: completed - 1956 | 136.1b |
| Edwards: Welcome - 1956 | 136.1c |
| Main St.: January | 136.2a |
| Main St.: June | 136.2b |
| Main St.: July | 136.2c |
| MCI Principal Niblock | 136.3a |
| MCI Founders' Hall | 136.3b |
| Airview of MCI Campus | 136.3c |
| MCI Trustees Meeting 1958: Headmaster | |
| Edward Stanley and | |
| Senator Margaret Chase Smith | 136.4a |
| MCI Powell Memorial Library 1959 | 136.4b |
| Pittsfield Advertiser: Eisenhower | |
| Visit to Pittsfield, | 136.5 |
| Eisenhower Letter | 136.6 |
| Fire Department - 1955 | 136.7a |
| Nixon Speaks - 1952 | 136.7b |
| Pittsfield Band - William Griffin, Leader | 136.7c |
| Herbert Newhouse | 136.8a |
| Newhouse Poultry Farm, Main Poultry | |
| Building - 1958 | 136.8b |
| Newhouse Poultry Farm, Fire 1961 | 136.8c |
| Edwards Company | 152.1a |
| J. R. Cianchette and Sons, Inc. | 152.1b |
| Bud's Super Market | 152.1c |
| Shorey Funeral Home | 152.1d |
| C. M. Almy and Sons, Inc. | 152.1e |
| Huff Machine Shop | 152.2a |
| Hubbard's Garage | 152.2b |
| Wirthmore Store | 152.2c |
| Pittsfield Woolen Yarns | 152.2d |
| Pittsfield Motor Sales | 152.2e |
| South Main Street: Summer | 152.3a |
| South Main Street: Winter | 152.3b |
| Manson Park School | 152.4a |
| Vickery School - 1958 | 152.4b |
| Lancey Street School - Lunch Program | 152.4c |
| North Lancey Street School - | |
| Converted to Lower Grades 1958 | 152.4d |
| Looking South from Hartland Ave, | |
| Where 95 Crosses | 152.5a |
| Former Presidents of Kiwanis, 25th Anniversary | 152.5b |
| Sebasticook Valley Hospital | 152.6a |
| Chandler Nursing Home | 152.6b |
| Hunnewell Bridge, New | 152.6c |
| Pinnacle Ski Slope and Ice Rink | 152.7a |
| St. Agnes Rectory - Recreation Center - | |
| Parking Area | 152.7b |
| Marie Bradford School | 152.7c |
| Ken, Buddy, and Chuck Cianchette | 152.8a |
| Cianchette Brothers, Inc. - Offices and Shops | 152.8b |
| Cianchette Brothers, Stables | 166.1a |
| Cianchette Brothers, One-Half Mile | |
| Track and Stables - | 166.1b |
| MCI West Campus | 166.2a |
| Harry W. Rowe - President MCI Trustees | 166.2b |
| MCI - Between Classes | 166.3 |
| Maine Fence Company, Don Bishop, Owner | 166.4a |
| Maine Fence Company | 166.4b |
| State Highway Garage - Spring Road | 166.5a |
| American Legion Home, former Methodist | |
| Church, Waverly Ave. | 166.5b |
| Fish and Game Club | 166.5c |
| C. M. Almy and Sons, Inc., Ryan Fendler, Mgr | 166.6a |
| Gerald Fitts | 166.6b |
| Dean John Shields, MCI Headmaster | |
| Edward Stanley | 166.6c |
| Norm Lyons, Western Auto Associate | 166.7a |
| Pittsfield Advertiser, Editor Mitchell - | |
| Yola Sanborn | 166.7b |
| LaForest Wright | 166.7c |
| Pittsfield Woolen Yarns: Neal and Clifford Wright | 166.7d |
| The Embers, David Mercier, Manager and Chef | 166.7e |
| The Embers | 166.7f |
| Humphrey's Drug Store: Don Makes a Sale | 166.8a |
| Hersey Hardware: Hugh Hersey explains | 166.8b |
| Pittsfield Motor Sales: Harry | 166.8c |
| Bud's Supermarket: Bud greets a customer | 166.8d |
| First National bank, Dick Austen, Cashier | 166.8e |
| Pittsfield Municipal Airport, | |
| Charles Andrews, Mgr. | 166.9a |
| New Furniture Exchange | 166.9b |
| State Liquor Store and Post Office | 166.9c |
| Post Office | 172 |
| George Newhouse, owner of Newhouse | |
| Poultry Farm - First Pres. of Jr. Chamber | |
| of Commerce | 166.10a |
| Wright's Racing Stables: Luke, Grace, and | |
| Buddy Wright | 166.10b |
| Lehr-Hammond Insurance Agency: | |
| Willard Lehr and Burton Hammond | 166.10c |
| Pittsfield and Route 95 (map) | 192 |
Original Version 18-Mar-2005.
