[1] Its founders were Lorenzo L. Shaw, Charles H. Weston, John H. Humphrey, Joseph Y. Hodsdon, E. Dudley Freeman and George W.

[2] Weston owned a machine shop and foundry at the Fourth Falls in Yarmouth, near where the water company was based.

A water tower with a tank capacity of a quarter of a million gallons was erected off West Elm Street.

[4] In 2012, after 89 years on East Elm Street, YWD moved to new premises at 181 Sligo Road,[4][7][8] beside the Brunswick Branch of the Maine Central Railroad.

The new construction caused a house to be demolished, without the acquisition of the necessary permit, for which YWD paid the Town of North Yarmouth $4,000.