Beebe Plain

Its survey, completed in the post-1812 era, missed the 45⁰N line by anywhere from a kilometre to a mile through much of the region, dividing the village in two instead of placing it primarily in Canada.

Homes on the south side of Canusa Street are in the United States; their residents must obtain passports and report to Customs to leave their driveways.

While the US side of the village is at most comparable in size, it was not incorporated as a municipality and is therefore not broken out from the rest of Derby Line, Vermont for census purposes.

[6] The granite industry is the major force in the area's economic history; the stone has been transported to distant cities both for memorials and for architectural use.

[8] Many residents of Beebe worked at Butterfield, a tool-and-die maker whose Rock Island factory was literally on the border with Derby Line with eight hundred workers in two nations; that facility closed in 1982.