Geographic Locations

Chart of Belfast Bay, 1882

This is a detail of the Penobscot River and Belfast Bay Maine chart, published by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1882. Details on the chart include where there are and aren't trees, as well as the first bridge at the head of the harbor. The granite beacon on Steel's Ledge at the mouth of the harbor is still in position, but now there is a bell buoy off the ledge that marks the harbor entrance.

The bridge at the head of harbor is the first one; a second one followed in 1923, and an elevated bridge was built in the 1960s. The 1923 bridge is now a footbridge.

Sailing Directions, Muscle Ridge Channel, 1822


North Atlantic Chart Showing Ship Track

Capt. Henry A. Starrett kept a track on his North Atlantic chart of where he was going, as he sailed the ship Levi G. Burgess back and forth to Europe. This track, which is kept up once a day, shows that the wind is not always in favor of getting the ship home most directly.

The Burgess was a Thomaston built and owned Down Easter built in 1877 and sold into the Pacific Coast trades in 1887 and then into the salmon business in 1910, where she worked until broken up in 1928.

Chart Detail of Castine

This chart of Castine Harbor shows the detailed information provided on a nautical chart, including water depths, rocks and shoal locations, an abandoned lighthouse, buoys, and the intertidal zone, the area that dries out at low tide. This is a modern chart, now available digitally on line and on Global Positioning System Devices.

This is a detail from NOAA Chart 13309, Penobscot River.

Granite Quarry, Vinalhaven


Schooner Nettie Langdon


Unloading Maine Lumber in Argentina


Wagon Load, Belfast


Herring Weir Fishing, Rockport


Knowlton Brothers Foundry Works



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