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Andover was originally settled in 1636 under the Native American name of Cochichawicke, a local waterway. Our community was incorporated in 1646 as the Town of Andover, named after a ....
A Window on the Past – Jesse Dyer, Jr., active in Pleasantdale, Knightville and Ligonia neighborhoods By Kathryn Onos DiPhilippo Share One fascinating person in South Portland’s past was Jesse Dyer, Jr. He was part of a line of South Portland Dyers who were mostly active as farmers and grocers, not to be confused with the Dyers who were shipbuilders. Jesse Dyer, Jr., was born in 1823 on the family farm in Cape Elizabeth, son of Jesse and Mary Dyer (Jesse, Sr. was also born in Cape Elizabeth). Jesse, Jr., was an unusual person for his time in that he seemed to change careers every 10 years or so. It was far more common in the 1800s for people to stay in one field. He started working at a young age and was, circa 1840, putting up telegraph lines between Boston and New York. He then worked as a section boss on the Portland, Saco & Portsmouth Railroad, and then took a job with the Kennebec Railroad where he worked through the 1840s and into the early-1850s. ....
Design includes parking at Hallowell’s proposed pocket park Parking Committee presents its recommendations for the downtown park at the corner of Water and Central streets. Share A rendering of the Parking Committee’s recommended design for a proposed pocket park at the corner of Water and Central streets in downtown Hallowell. Courtesy of the city of Hallowell HALLOWELL A city committee has recommended a design for a proposed park at the corner of Central and Water Streets that would use half of the location for parking. The Parking Committee, formed in July by former Mayor Mark Walker, discussed its recommendations last Monday at a Zoom meeting of the City Council. ....