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Acre Lot, Sebasco

February 20, 2022 by jdorrme Leave a Comment

            Acre Lot Sebasco, Phippsburg, Maine   Last winter I, received a phone call from my son Chris. I said that he volunteered me to see if I could find some graves that were believed to be buried there. He told me that at one time, someone put a barb wire fence around the graves […]

Filed Under: Maine History, Metal detecting

Buried Treasure in Springfield, Maine

December 12, 2018 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

I found this article in a newspaper clipping dated May 09, 1897, the newspaper was the Sun from New York city. The newspaper was operated 1833 to 1916. After Buried Gold A Maine man with a dividing rod thinks he can locate it on old Mallett’s Farm.   Springfield Me.      As soon as the […]

Filed Under: Legends and ghost stories, Maine History

Where it all Began

November 6, 2015 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

When I drive down to Popham Beach it is hard to imagine what it must have looked like when the English settlers arrived in 1607. No Spinney’s restaurant, no houses, and no road to drive there. You read books about how hard it was back in the history of this country. Think about 100 to […]

Filed Under: Maine History

Brunswick Invades Falmouth

September 6, 2015 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

As you are driving from Portland north or Brunswick south think about this little story: It was March of 1775, and our newly declared country was at war with England. There was an English ship in the harbor of Falmouth called the Canceaux, a man of war sent there to intimate the colonists as they […]

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Meadowbrook Camping Area, the old Winnegance Farm

May 1, 2015 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

The Old Winnegance Farm By Jeff Darling My Historical paper is on the Old Winnegance Farm on the Meadowbrook Rd, in Phippsburg, Me. I don’t know for sure when the house was built because the records would be either in the county of York or Lincoln depending on the Date. It was built in the […]

Filed Under: Maine History, Motorcycle Camping

Colonel Jonathan Buck, A Ghost Story about Bucksport, Maine

February 18, 2015 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

I love Ghost stories and a lady told me this one many years ago. Every time I head north and go through Bucksport I always stop at this monument. Their are many different versions of this story. As you head up the coast, which is a beautiful ride through Camden, Maine you will come to […]

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Carroll A. Deering

August 24, 2013 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

Carroll A. Deering was a five-masted commercial schooner that was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, in 1921. Its crew was mysteriously missing. The Deering is one of the most written-about maritime mysteries in history, with claims that it was a victim of the Bermuda Triangle, although the evidence points towards a mutiny […]

Filed Under: Legends and ghost stories, Maine History

Trike ride to Popham Beach

December 21, 2011 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

From US Route 1 in Bath (home to Bath Iron Works) take the High Street/Phippsburg/Route 209 Exit. Follow this road through a residential area, you will also pass the Hyde School on your left. The road will jog across the  Winnegance  bridge.( this is where the Indians use to portage into Winnegance Lake to get […]

Filed Under: Maine History, Motorcycle Trips

A Memorial Day to Remember ( B-52 Crash site Greenville, Me)

December 4, 2011 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

  Yesterday Being Memorial Day I decided to pay my respects and fulfill one of the things on my personal list. At 0931 I left Meadowbrook Camping Area heading towards Greenville, Me. As I headed towards Brunswick I decided that I would only take back roads to the crash site.  Al through I hit a […]

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Logging, an interesting story

March 10, 2011 by Triker Tom Leave a Comment

I found this story and decided to put this on my Blog for all to see. This is a piece of history. History of Lumbering in Maine Logging began in the 1600’s when English explorers cut trees on Monhegan Island. In 1634 the first sawmill, powered by water,was built in South Berwick. By 1832, Bangor […]

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