Calais Close-Up - Maine’s First Railroad Began in Calais

Calais Close-Up - Maine’s First Railroad Began in Calais
This Maine Central Railroad station, photographed around 1900, is the same building that stands today as the Wabanaki Cultural Center. It represents a much later chapter in Calais’ railroad story — a story that began nearly 70 years earlier with horses pulling lumber cars along wooden rails between Calais and Milltown. 

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