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Evolution of the Kennebec ferry lines through history
This history traces Kennebec River ferries from early birch bark canoes to steam service. It covers the Chops and Day’s Ferry era, Lee’s Ferry on the Phippsburg side, and the Sagadahoc Company’s rise with steamers like the Sagadahoc and Lincoln. It notes key figures and the shift from paddle wheels to propellers by 1901.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ferdinando Gorges
Maine Central Railroad
Kennebec River
Chops
Kennebec
Boston
John Quincey Adams
United States
Adams
Lincoln County
Massachusetts
Court of General Sessions
Samuel Harnden
Thorne’s Head
Phippsburg
Arrowsic
Lee's Ferry
Jones’ Eddy
George L. Berry
Peter Peterson
Oakwood Farm
Day's and
Lee's
Richard Nutter
Jonathan Hyde
Sagadahoc
People's Ferry Company
Bath
Tallman's Landing
B. C. Bailes
Bailey
Woolwich
Glass & Longfellow
Glass
Lincoln
Knox & Lincoln Railroad Company
City of
Rockland
People’s Ferry Company of Bath
Union
William T. Donnell
Charles FE. Hyde