St. Croix Island International Historic Site near Calais, Maine
The Daley's RoadTrip to Saint Croix Island International Historic Site Location Washington County, Maine, United States Nearest city Calais, Maine.
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Buildings on Saint Croix Island, 1613 Saint Croix Island long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the International Boundary separating Maine from New Brunswick.
The winter of 1604-1605 on Saint Croix Island was a cruel one for Pierre Dugua's French expedition. Iced in by freezing temperatures and cut off from fresh water and game, 35 of 79 men died. As spring arrived and native people traded game for bread, the health of those remaining improved. Although the expedition moved on by summer, the beginning of French presence in North America had begun.
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This area was occupied for thousands of years by indigenous peoples. The historic Passamaquoddy, an Algonquian-speaking people of the Wabanaki Confederacy, was predominant in this area at the time of European encounter and settlement.
The St. Croix River and its area were first explored by the French Samuel de Champlain when he and his men spent a winter on St. Croix Island in 1604. The first permanent settler was Daniel Hill of Jonesboro, who arrived in 1779 during the American Revolutionary War, when this was still part of Massachusetts. With other settlers, he built the first sawmill in 1782. On June 27, 1789, the Massachusetts General Court sold the township to Waterman Thomas for 19¢ an acre (approx. $2.86 an acre in 2018 dollars). Early occupations in the settlement included farming, hunting and ship building.[5]
On June 16, 1809, Plantation Number 5 PS was incorporated as Calais after Calais, France, in honor of French assistance during the American Revolution. The river provided the mill town with water power for industry, which included sawmills, clapboard and shingle mills, two planing mills, a saw factory, two axe factories and four grain mills. There were foundries, machine shops, granite works, shoe factories and a tannery. Other businesses produced bricks, bedsteads, brooms, carriages and plaster.[6]
The relationship between Calais and the neighboring Canadian town of St. Stephen has been remarkably close, over a period of many years. As evidence of the longtime friendship between the towns, during the War of 1812, the British military provided St. Stephen with a large supply of gunpowder for protection against the enemy Americans in Calais, but St. Stephen's town elders gave the gunpowder to Calais for its Fourth of July celebrations.[7]
Calais is the home of the first railroad built in the state of Maine, the Calais Railroad, incorporated by the state legislature on February 17, 1832.[8] It was built to transport lumber from a mill on the St. Croix River opposite Milltown, New Brunswick, 2 miles (3 km) to the tidewater at Calais in 1835. In 1849, the name was changed to the Calais & Baring Railroad, and the line was extended 4 miles (6 km) farther to Baring.[9] In 1870, it became part of the St. Croix & Penobscot Railroad.[10]
Calais was incorporated as a city on August 24, 1850. On July 18, 1864, Confederate agents crossed the border from New Brunswick and attempted to rob a bank in Calais.[11]
The Calais Free Library was designed by noted Boston architect Arthur H. Vinal and opened on July 4, 1893. The Romanesque Revival building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
Other places in Calais listed on the National Register of Historic Places are the Calais Historic District, Calais Residential Historic District, Devils Head Site, Gilmore House, Thomas Hamilton House, Hinckley Hill Historic District, Holmes Cottage, Dr. Job Holmes House, Theodore Jellison House, Pike's Mile Markers, St. Anne's Episcopal Church, George Washburn House and Whitlocks Mill Light.
Main Street in 1913
Calais Avenue c. 1905
International Bridge in 1913
Looking east from bridge in 1908
St Croix Island National Park.
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Saint Croix Island, Maine
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Saint Croix Island , long known to locals as Dochet Island, is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick.The island was the site of an early attempt at French colonization by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons in 1604.In 1984 it was designated by the United States Congress as Saint Croix Island International Historic Site.There is no public access to the island, but there is a visitor contact station on the U.S.
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US-Canada Border Crossing, Calais ME to St Stephen NB
Crossing from Calais, Maine, USA to Saint Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada via the new border facility on International Ave. (I was exporting the vehicle from the USA and importing it into Canada and have edited out the bits where I turned into the vehicle inspection facilities to park and do paperwork.) Recorded with a Best Buy Insignia NS-CT1DC8 dashcam on a Fiat 500.
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The native Passamaquoddy Tribe has called this area home for at least 10,000 years. Some archeologists estimate the habitation at 20,000 years.[5] The first known European contact was the St. Croix colony founded by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1604. Near present-day Calais, the unsuccessful Saint Croix Island Acadia settlement predates the first successful English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, by three years. On June 25, 1604, Champlain and his men spent a long and severe winter on St. Croix Island with no fresh water and diminished supplies. Two-fifths of the men died of scurvy, and the colony moved across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal in present-day Nova Scotia.[6]
Fishermen and traders visited the area in the 17th century. Moose Island was first settled in 1772 by James Cochrane of Newburyport, Massachusetts, who would be joined by other fishermen from Newburyport and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. On February 24, 1798, Eastport was incorporated as a town from Plantation Number 8 PS by the Massachusetts General Court, and named for being the easternmost port in the United States. Lubec, on the mainland, was set off and incorporated as a town on June 21, 1811.[7]
From 1807 to 1809, the town was a center of extensive two-way smuggling during the Embargo Act imposed by President Thomas Jefferson. In 1809, Fort Sullivan was erected atop a village hill, but it was captured by a British fleet under command of Sir Thomas Hardy on July 11, 1814, during the War of 1812 as part of the initiative to establish the colony of New Ireland. England claimed that Moose Island was on the British side of the international border which had been determined in 1783. Nevertheless, the town was returned to United States' control in 1818. The boundary between the U. S. and Canada in the area remained disputed until settled by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842.[8] Eastport is the location most recently occupied by a foreign country in the contiguous United States.[9]
In 1833 Eastport was the second largest trading port in the country after New York City.[9] Farms produced hay and potatoes. Industries included a grain mill, box factory and carding mill. But the island's economy was primarily directed at the sea. With tides of about 25 feet (7.6 m), Eastport's spacious harbor remained ice-free year round. The first sardine factory was built here about 1875. The population grew with the emergence of the sardine fishery and related canning businesses, which studded the shoreline by the end of the 19th century. By 1886, the town contained 13 sardine factories, which operated day and night during the season, and produced approximately 5,000 cases per week. About 800 men, women and children worked in the plants.[10] Eastport would be incorporated as a city on March 18, 1893.[8] But the fishing industry would decline, and many people moved away. Indeed, the city went bankrupt in 1937. In 1976, the Groundhog Day Gale destroyed many structures along the waterfront. Today, catching fish remains the principal industry, although tourism has become important as well.[11]
Eastport is a port of entry. An international ferry crosses to Deer Island, New Brunswick, during the summer months. Each 4th of July, the city becomes a destination for thousands of celebrants. Navy ships have docked there during the 4th of July celebration for many years. Eastport celebrated its bicentennial in 1998. Each September, the city hosts the annual Maine Salmon Festival in the historic downtown district.[12]
Eastport and Passamaquoddy Bay, 1839, by William Henry Bartlett
Washington Street c. 1905
Water Street in 1906
Elm Street in 1909
The border between the US and Canada at Calais, Maine
Vlog #39: Road Trip 2014 (Day One) Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Vlog #39: Road Trip 2014 (Day One) Whitman Mission National Historic Site
The second half of the first day starts with a trip to the Columbia River Gorge Discovery Center followed by a drive through eastern Washington state with a stop at Whitman Mission National Historic Site.
Saint Croix Island
A little history about Saint Croix Island
Border crossing from St. Stephen, NB into Calais, ME - June 22, 2018
Red Beach Cove
Laser Scan of the old Red Beach Cove wharf. Part of the Saint Croix Islands International Historic Site in Calais, Maine.
St Croix Island, Bay of Fundy, Canada - USA border
St Croix Island where the French explorers came to Canada first in 1604.
Nexus Sculpture in Calais, Maine
Calais, Maine places it's newest monument, Nexus a sculpture created by Mainer, Miles Chapin via the Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium. Video by Dan Daley of Calais, Maine.
The pink granite came from a quarry on the Red Beach property of Carl and Heather Ross. The black granite came from a quarry on the Red Beach property of Chris Littrell
The Sculpture Tour is a self guided driving tour of all sculpture sites (34 total) and is distributed through information centers throughout the state annually. Calais has a very friendly visitors center.
The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) is a biennial cultural event that brings together artists, visitors, and communities to create a public sculpture collection in eastern Maine.
Their Mission is to hold biennial, international stone sculpture symposiums in downeast Maine that will engage individuals and communities in public art and result in a large public art collection in Hancock, Penobscot and Washington counties.
The Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium (SISS) is a biennial cultural event that brings together artists, visitors, and communities to create a public sculpture collection in eastern Maine.
They're located in 2014 at the ball field next to U.S. Bells on Route 186. Make plans to visit our Welcome tent and observe the creative process from start to finish–the event is open and free to the public.
Schoodic International Sculpture Symposium
PO Box 122
Steuben, Maine 04680
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Eight International artists create sculptures from Maine granite.This project will expose youth to the arts as well as Maine’s geology and quarrying history.
The St. Croix River
Produced by Julia Beaty
Alewives and blueback herring are two ecologically and economically important species that can be found in Downeast Maine's rivers. This video showcases local perspectives on the importance of the St. Croix River for alewife and blueback populations.
This video was produced as part of an oral history project carried out by Maine Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries in the spring of 2014 with financial support from NOAA’s Preserve America Initiative.
To learn more about the fisheries heritage of Downeast Maine, visit DowneastFisheriesTrail.org
To learn more about the work being done by the Passamaquoddy Tribe to restore the St. Croix River and about the cultural importance of alewives for the Passamaquoddy people, visit
Heavy Flooding in Calais, Maine July 26, 2013
Dan Daley films more flooding in Calais, Maine. The rotary coming into town is shut down. It's never good when your EMS is on full patrol and their station is flooding as well. South Street closed by Walmart/Storage Units and North almost closed in front of our Fire Station and PD. Hometown hero's will be tired tonight. In some areas there even recommending that EMS put on Personal Flotation Devices while directing traffic.
Sea Port fifty miles from Calais ME
Nourishing Neighborhoods: Meet Sarah Smith of Skowhegan, ME
Meet Sarah, a full time farmer, mom and market manager of the Skowhegan farmers market in central Maine.
The Skowhegan farmers market participates in the Double Value Coupon Program and the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program. Sarah says, our community is being revitalized and empowered around food. When you provide them access for choices about their food...it brings about a sense of pride in them that really moves them to the next level.
Calais, Maine - International Festival Parade Time Lapse 2013
Calais, Maine - International Festival Parade Time Lapse 2013 as filmed by Dan Daley of Calais, Maine. Creative Commons Music credit: music4yourvids.co.uk
Geeky Data: Hero GoPro 3: Black Edition Camera. Shooting 12 Megapixel Images taken in 1 second intervals and then processed at 24 FPS using GoPro CineForm Studio software (free). There were slightly more than 3000 individual images required to make this clip. The part that sucked was I had 1 bad image that stopped the process until I found it and removed...after searching 1 by 1. I didn't want to waste the footage... so I kept looking till I found the needle in the haystack.
Whitlocks Mill Lighthouse
CALAIS, Maine - Aerial views of Whitlocks Mill Lighthouse located along the shoreline of the Saint Croix River. It is the northernmost lighthouse in the state of Maine, and was the last light to be built in the state.
The keeper's house, now privately owned but the tower was deeded to the St. Croix Historical Society as part of the Maine Lighthouse Program.
HOT NEWS Calais 2017 Best Of Calais ME Tourism
Calais ME Tourism. Calais i/ˈkælᵻs/ is a city in Washington County, Maine, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 3,123.[4] The city has three Canada–US border crossings (also known as ports of entry) over the St. Croix River connecting to St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada.
Calais has been a city of commerce and is recognized as the primary shopping center of eastern Washington County and of Charlotte County, New Brunswick. Retail, service, and construction businesses are the primary components of the Calais economy.