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Scavenger Hunt: Site #3

posted on - July 28, 2023

SITE 3 (OF 7):

 Grand Trunk Station (288 Main)

Photo Source: Wikipedia (January 2014)

Grand Trunk Station: Railroads first arrived in Yarmouth in the late 1840s. Two major lines, the Grand Trunk Railroad and Maine Central Railroad, came through Yarmouth and drove industrial and economic growth in many areas of town. Yarmouth’s iconic Grand Trunk Railroad Station on Main Street was built in 1906, but by 1968 was threatened with demolition. It was ultimately preserved by the Village Improvement Society and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The building retains its wonderfully distinctive sweeping roofline and many original station features inside.

Fun fact: In 1911, passengers could hop aboard the Grand Trunk railroad in Yarmouth and take a special Sunday excursion train to Berlin, NH for $1.25. Trains also called at several other Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont points as well as Montreal.

Bibliography:

Adult (3)

  • Ambrose’s Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869 (2000) – no copy at MML, but available in 39 Minerva libraries
  • Hiltzik’s Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America (2020) – no copy at MML, but available in 6 Minerva libraries
  • Wolmar’s The Great Railroad Revolution: The History of Trains in America (2012) – no copy at MML, but available in 8 Minerva libraries

Juvenile (3)

  • Floca’s Locomotive (2013) – MML has 2 copies; 57 more copies in Minerva
  • Gifford’s How Trains Work: Explore the World of Trains Inside and Out with Loads of Flaps to Lift (2019) – MML has 1 copy; no more copies in Minerva
  • Meltzer’s Hear That Whistle Blow!: How the Railroad Changed the World (2004) – MML has 1 copy; 7 more copies in Minerva

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