Welcome to Ellsworth Maine
The mission of the Ellsworth Historical Society is to spark an appreciation and understanding of our diverse local heritage, its context and living history within and beyond Ellsworth and Hancock County. Through the collection, preservation, interpretation and exhibition of artifactual and documentary materials, historic buildings, cultural practices and other intangible heritage the Ellsworth Historical Society will contribute to public education, research and the collective identity of our community and region.
And now for some fun …
What’s missing here? If you said “Union Trust Bank,” you’d be right. In this W.H. Titus glass plate negative from c. 1900, the “Senator” is being carried from the harbor up to Green Lake. The Granite Block is in the background.
Why is this house sitting in the City Hall parking lot? It was the home of Mary Black, and it sat across State Street from the courthouse before being demolished.
What sits in the location of this old service station today? If you said “Verizon” (used to be Mark Blanchette’s furniture shop) you’d be right. For bonus points, what needed to happen before this service station could be built here? (That’s a little-known fact!)
It’s Monday morning, May 8, 1933, and you — just like everybody — shop on Main Street (High Street was all private homes back then). So you go downtown to pick out a lightweight summer jacket. Here’s what you saw.
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