Later the settlers on the west bank of the river had to purchase the land they had settled on from the legal owners.

The settlers arrived by ship and traveled by foot or boat until roads began to be built in the 1780s.

The first bridge (main street) was built In the 19th century Waldoboro became a significant shipbuilding center and customs port of entry.

Fishes include brook trout (squaretail), white sucker, brown trout, minnows, smalImouth bass, lake chub, white perch, common shiner, yellow perch, golden shiner, chain pickerel, blackchin shiner, hornpout (bullhead), redbelly dace, smelt, blacknose dace, alewife, ninespine stickleback, eel, and pumpkinseed sunfish.

Some of the migratory fishes in the river include alewives, blueback herring (together called river herring), American eels (the juveniles called elvers or glass eels), rainbow smelt and striped bass.