The Photo Project
Various slideshows are being developed for specific areas of Blue Hill Falls and the Blue Hill Neck (South Blue Hill). They are generally photos from 1800's to the the 1930's, but some are also included that may depict changes significant enough to be included - one is the Boathouse above, that in the early 1950's was actually white (or a light gray) - not red. Another project will take several significant "old" photos and take a new one - from the same perspective/location - to depict the significant changes over time.
Some slideshows will be on their respective pages (Bridge, Fishing, etc.) and others may appear here as they are developed.
In constructing these slideshows, new images may be added if significant - over time.
Please come back and you may see new ones as that happens.
If you have old photos that might fit this project - that we might not have already, please let me know.
We will try to categorize all that we have in early 2019.
Note:
1. We are not converting negatives or slides.... digital files or paper photos work best at this point. In both cases you retain the "originals."
2. I am more than happy to come by and check to see what you have! Just click on my name and send me an email.... Butler Smythe
Some slideshows will be on their respective pages (Bridge, Fishing, etc.) and others may appear here as they are developed.
In constructing these slideshows, new images may be added if significant - over time.
Please come back and you may see new ones as that happens.
If you have old photos that might fit this project - that we might not have already, please let me know.
We will try to categorize all that we have in early 2019.
Note:
1. We are not converting negatives or slides.... digital files or paper photos work best at this point. In both cases you retain the "originals."
2. I am more than happy to come by and check to see what you have! Just click on my name and send me an email.... Butler Smythe
The Tide Mill District
The images below are perhaps the oldest we have available. It is interesting and informative for many reasons.
The photographer stood close to the high point of Mill Island, near the Tide Mill House, looking north towards Conary Cove.
1) The white building(s) in the center are Manor House and its barn, between the Mill Pond and Conary Cove.
2) To the right side of the image is a large two story structure that is long gone - the Tide Mill. It sat to the right of what was a dam, which served to help generate the hydrodynamic flow that enabled the mill to operate its equipment - long before electricity. If you walk along the Mill Pond Dam (a.k.a.Tide Mill Bridge/causeway) today, the Mill would have been to your right, on the Bay side of the roadway.
3) Just beyond the Mill are three buildings - two on the right side of the road and one on the left. The first on the right side is a structure that belonged to Benjamin Clay and was built in 1833. It was torn down in the 1930's. The other, just beyond that, was a larger building that served as a store - Dana's (for part of its life). Both sat on the piece of land immediately after the Dam on the Cove. To the left is a smaller building that sat on the rocks to the left of the Dam and served as a boat building related structure on the Mill Pond and was owned by the Conary family and the land is still owned by their descendants.
4) Immediately above the smaller building is the Federal Style home at the head of Conary Cove, on of the earliest photos of that structure.
5) Note that the Red Boathouse on the cove is not there! That building did not exist until the early 1920's for personal boat repair/storage.
Note: Many other photos of this general area follow - taken during later time periods that include structures which did not exist at the time this photo was taken; some that include the same buildings. The challenge is to place yourself where they were taken and observe how things have changed - or not.
The reference to "South Blue Hill" in the photo to the left below is actually Blue Hill Falls. South Blue Hill is on the Blue Hill Neck.
The photographer stood close to the high point of Mill Island, near the Tide Mill House, looking north towards Conary Cove.
1) The white building(s) in the center are Manor House and its barn, between the Mill Pond and Conary Cove.
2) To the right side of the image is a large two story structure that is long gone - the Tide Mill. It sat to the right of what was a dam, which served to help generate the hydrodynamic flow that enabled the mill to operate its equipment - long before electricity. If you walk along the Mill Pond Dam (a.k.a.Tide Mill Bridge/causeway) today, the Mill would have been to your right, on the Bay side of the roadway.
3) Just beyond the Mill are three buildings - two on the right side of the road and one on the left. The first on the right side is a structure that belonged to Benjamin Clay and was built in 1833. It was torn down in the 1930's. The other, just beyond that, was a larger building that served as a store - Dana's (for part of its life). Both sat on the piece of land immediately after the Dam on the Cove. To the left is a smaller building that sat on the rocks to the left of the Dam and served as a boat building related structure on the Mill Pond and was owned by the Conary family and the land is still owned by their descendants.
4) Immediately above the smaller building is the Federal Style home at the head of Conary Cove, on of the earliest photos of that structure.
5) Note that the Red Boathouse on the cove is not there! That building did not exist until the early 1920's for personal boat repair/storage.
Note: Many other photos of this general area follow - taken during later time periods that include structures which did not exist at the time this photo was taken; some that include the same buildings. The challenge is to place yourself where they were taken and observe how things have changed - or not.
The reference to "South Blue Hill" in the photo to the left below is actually Blue Hill Falls. South Blue Hill is on the Blue Hill Neck.
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Blue Hill Falls
Conary Cove & The Mill Pond Photos
The Blue Hill Falls Post Office was established on 1 May 1852
Roundy & Wood Tablet Dedication Day - 1910 |
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Joseph Wood and John Roundy Settled on Mill Island in 1762 in that was to eventually be called Blue Hill. For a time it was known as "Head of the Bay."
A tablet now sits on mill Island close on the pond side of the road near the Mill Pond Dam. In the photos that follow, Blue Hill citizens gather in 1910 on Mill Island in Blue Hill Falls for the unveiling of a monument celebrating the founding of the town. Wood and Roundy sailed up from the Boston colony to start a new town; the first settlement in Blue Hill was in the area of Mill Island and was referred to as the "Tide Mill" district, derived from the fact that two mills were built near this site that were powered by the tides. Wood and Roundy were at the beginning of a land rush to settle the downeast Maine coast that came after the end of the French and Indian wars clarified Britain's sovereignty over the this part of the coast. This postcard is postmarked 1911.
A tablet now sits on mill Island close on the pond side of the road near the Mill Pond Dam. In the photos that follow, Blue Hill citizens gather in 1910 on Mill Island in Blue Hill Falls for the unveiling of a monument celebrating the founding of the town. Wood and Roundy sailed up from the Boston colony to start a new town; the first settlement in Blue Hill was in the area of Mill Island and was referred to as the "Tide Mill" district, derived from the fact that two mills were built near this site that were powered by the tides. Wood and Roundy were at the beginning of a land rush to settle the downeast Maine coast that came after the end of the French and Indian wars clarified Britain's sovereignty over the this part of the coast. This postcard is postmarked 1911.