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Woodland, Maine 04736
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Church Bell. Peoples United Methodist Church. Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine. When the church was remodeled in the 1990s, the bell tower was removed and the entrance was moved to the Summit Street side. It rung faithfully every Sunday morning when I lived
Peoples United Methodist Church. 20 Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine. Built in 1906-07. Rebuilt and enlarged in 1921.
Stained Glass Window. Peoples United Methodist Church. Third Avenue. Woodland, Maine.
Burglar Alarm. Merrill Trust Company (former). Woodland, Maine.
Vietnam War Memorial. Woodland, Maine.
Post Office. Woodland, Maine. 04694. From one shopping center to another.
Woodland Public Library. Main Street. Woodland, Maine. Built in 1922-23.
Woodland High School Athletic Field. Most, if not all, of the houses that were beyond the fence on the far side are now gone. Woodland, Maine.
Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. I lived just over two blocks away from school. We didn’t have a cafeteria, so I went home for lunch. Most of the houses were “mill houses” built in the first decade or two of the 1900s.
The smell of money. Woodland Pulp & Paper Mill. Baileyville, Maine. Founded as St. Croix Paper Company just after 1900, it has gone through many iterations since. In the seventies, upwards of 1,500 people were employed directly or indirectly by the mill.
Woodland High School. Woodland, Maine. The high school also houses junior high students and was built in 1955-56.
Woodland High School. Baileyville, Maine. The school dates to the late sixties to early seventies. The gym to the left was built after the school was completed.
War Memorial. Woodland, Maine.
You can’t go home again. 96 Hillside Street is now 29. Woodland, Maine. My old house was the first school in town. It appeared on the U.S. Census for the first time in 1910. It once was a duplex.
Underneath that hideous blue siding are dark brown cedar shakes—painted by Dad and yours truly. Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. Built c. 1906. The town’s first school building.
96 (now 29) Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. Our house from 1973-77. It was dark brown cedar shakes with two garages. A huge pine adorned the front right corner. My bedroom was the rear upper window location—one of four upstairs.
Woodland Elementary School. Woodland, Maine. Built in 1967.
Town Hall. Baileyville, Maine.
Former St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Woodland, Maine. This church was closed when I lived in town. There was a small bell tower where the “driveway“ is located. The cedar shakes siding was used on most residential buildings in town. Built in 1922.
St. James Catholic Church. Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine. The cornerstone was laid in 1905, and the first service was held in 1907. It was built using the Italianate Style and the outside entrance was changed in 1973-74.
Odd Fellows Hall. Hillside Street. Woodland, Maine.
Main Street. Woodland, Maine. Many buildings have been razed since I lived here in the seventies.
Former Shopping Center. Woodland, Maine. Tenants were State Liquor Store, Treworgy’s Rexall Drug Store, IGA Foodliner, Post Office, and Merrill Trust Company. This was downtown for us. Built in 1964.
Old Merrill Trust Company Building. Main Street. Woodland, Maine. The bank opened in 1958 in the former Brick Garage. Every Friday in the summer, I would deposit most of my summer earnings into my savings account there.
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