Transportation (TRA)

Before the steamboats there were the schooners that moved materials to and from markets, and transported people to ports near and far.

Steamboat Wharf at Sargentville (TRA.1)

Photos of Sargentville steamboat wharf and steamers

H.N. Dority’s Stagecoach to Blue Hill 1887 (TRA.2)

1887 Photo of H.N. Dority stagecoach heading to Blue Hill

Ferry Between Sargentville and Deer Isle (TRA.3)

Photos of Ferry transportation between Sargentville and Deer Isle. Clayton Gross, in his booklet, Steel Over Eggemoggin, writes of the evidence that “ferry service of some kind existed for about 147 years from 1792 to 1939.”

Proposed site for the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge (TRA.4)

Site of the proposed Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge, Little Deer Isle, ME.

Design and Construction of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge (TRA.5)

Design and Construction of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge, written by Holton D. Robinson

Building the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge (TRA.6)

Photos of the ships, barges and support efforts involved in building the Deer Isle Bridge, 1937-38.

Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge Dedication Program- June 19, 1939

Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge Dedication June 19, 1939 (TRA.7)

Dedication of the opening of the Deer Isle-Sedgwick Bridge June 19, 1939.

Transportation over the Reach Ice (TRA.8)

Photos and descriptions of transportation when the Reach was frozen over.