Lower Falls (Yarmouth, Maine)
[4] 51 East Main Street was built in 1810 and was once the home of William Stockbridge, a prominent merchant, ship owner and town treasurer.
[2] Known locally as Stockbridge Hall,[5] number 68, at the corner of East Main and Yankee Drive, was built around 1725.
[2] Close to the East Main and Spring Street split, number 96 was likely built by Samuel Buxton and later occupied by Nathaniel True.
19th- and 20th-century homes and business that existed on Main Street are listed below, roughly from east to west.
2 at the Main Street and Marina Road split (at the crest of Staples Hill), was built for the fire department around 1889.
[2][13] Back on the northern side of the street, number 57, the Edward Russell House, was built around 1813.
[2] 76 Main Street, set back from the road, adjacent to Torrey Court, was built in 1792.
[7] Englishman James Parsons' (1811–1876)[17] grocery store, "a two-story building standing on the lot adjoining that where stood for so many years the little old post office".
(He lived in the building that is now 162 Main Street, which stands on the former site of the Knights of Pythias Hall, Westcustogo Lodge, No.
33)[19] He was succeeded in 1803 by Samuel P. Russell, David Drinkwater in 1804, John Hale in 1810, Daniel Mitchell in 1816, James C. Hill in 1834, Jacob G. Loring in 1842 and Reuben Cutter in 1845.
Lucy V. Groves was appointed in 1868, becoming the first woman named or elected to an official position in the town of Yarmouth.
Doughty moved across the street, into the building to be later occupied by L. R. Doherty's hardware store, Barbour's and Goffs, when his business expanded.
[7] The millinery shop of Susan Kinghorn (located at the eastern corner of Main and Portland Streets in the building now occupied by Rosemont Market); between 1942 and 1953 [Harold B.]
[22] An ornate, circular horse trough resembling a water fountain existed at the intersection of Main and Portland Streets in the early 1900s;[23] it now stands behind the Merrill Memorial Library.
The parsonage for the Universalist church was the brick building at 89 Main Street, now occupied by Plumb-It, et al., to the east of Snip 'N Clip.
On the other side of the church, at number 109, just to the east of where Old Sloop (later known as Union Hall) once stood, is an 1850-built Italianate house that was formerly the home of Edward J. Stubbs, one of Yarmouth's most prolific and successful shipbuilders.
[2] Marina Road is the right-hand turn at the Staples Hill split with Main Street.
Original owner Peter Allen tore down the Hannah Russell House at 3 Marina Road and built the current structure in 1881.
