Monday, 06 February 2012

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Many folks have old photos of family gatherings. Unfortunately, nobody can tell who the people in the pictures were. Fortunately, this picture comes with a legend. Courtesy of a desendent.

Family Gathering in Caribou 		Legend

Family Gathering in Caribou (Back) 		The house on the right--located on the Presque Isle Road in Caribou, just beyond the County Quick Stop--still stands and was recently purchased. It dates back to when the Halls settled in Caribou in the mid-1800s. The building has been an inn, a store and a residence. This picture, taken in the 1950s or 1960s shows the farm in its heyday. Photo courtesy of William Tasker

The Hall Farm on the Presque Isle Road in Caribou
Cheaper than cable phone! From William Tasker's personal collection.

1941 Telephone Bill From Fort Fairfield 		Unidentified farm in Caribou. Anyone have any ideas? From William Tasker's personal collection (an unidentified page of an old article selling Aroostook as the last frontier on the east coast. It still is).

Unidentified Old Farm 		An oldest, old and more recent photos of the H.B. Pratt House on North Main Street was built in 1889 by Nathaniel Stover, a Civil War veteran and Eliza Pratt's third husband. Eliza had purchased the Abram Sawin House across the street. More on that later. Pictures courtesy of Brenda Shaw, author of "Eliza and Menora," via her second cousin, once removed: David Pratt.

(Upd)H.B. Pratt House on North Main in Caribou
The original S.W.Collins. Sam Collins, along with his partner, Washington Vaughan, took advantage of the state's land statute and received four lots that comprised all of downtown Caribou today. In exchange for the land, the partners built two mills, a gristmill and a sawmill. Collins was a dominant influence in the early history of Caribou. Senator Susan Collins of Maine is his direct descendent. Photo courtesy of William Tasker

S.W. Collins 		This 1842 document was a message from the President of the United States concerning the boundary dispute with England that almost led to a war in Aroostook County. From William Tasker's personal collection.

1842 Document from the President 		George Doe was an early photographer in Caribou, Maine. His shop was on Sweden Street, one of the earliest businesses there. This photo is of an unknown woman. Unfortunately, people didn't always label the backs of their photographs. The picture is still set in its original Doe photo card. From William Tasker's personal collection.

Unknown Caribou Woman by Doe
The Warren Dwinel House on North Main Street, built by A.M. York in the late 1860s. Photo by William Tasker

The Warren Dwinel House in Caribou 		This picture was in the same article that contained the picture labeled as the unidentified farm. The picture is unique among old pictures of the dam and water works on the Aroostook River in Caribou. Most old postcards of the dam show a landscape that is bald. That is, there are no trees anywhere as all the land was cleared for the potato boom. This picture must be from before the early postcards. The dam was built in 1889 and most postcards in my collection are from the early 1900s. The picture then must be in the early 1890s and gives a unique perspective on the landscape before the big farms.

Caribou Water Works 		Possibly Main Street. I believe these buildings all vanished in the supposed urban renewal of the 1970s Real photograph from William Tasker's personal collection

Downtown Caribou in the 1940s
The old farmsteads are about the only places left in Aroostook to see large lovely trees like this tree found on the Sweden Road in Caribou. Photo by William Tasker

Box Alder on the Doe/Smith Farm 		Few today would realize that the laundromat on South Main Street in Caribou was once a stately home of Earl Lombard. The question still remains if this was the third house built by early pioneer settler, David Adams. Local historian Stella King White states that Adam's store was where the gas station is now and he built his home where the Nylander sits today. He turned that building into a hotel and built a new home just up the street. Was this the home he built? Picture courtesy of the Plourde family.

Lombard House on South Main Street, Caribou 		Another picture.

Lombard House on South Main Street, Caribou
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