Description: For more information on the history of this house see “The Historic Homes of the Town of Tremont…A perspective in Time,” p. 21, "The Barbara L. Slick House" - Published by the Tremont Historical Society, July 1998. Barbara L. Slick is Barbara (Lawson) Slick, daughter of Edwin "Ned" Lawson.
Description: Archivists at the Library are not sure if this image actually depicts the Captain Nathan Adam Reed House because it is not the same home as in Item 13349.
Description: The Cornerstone Baptist Church was founded on March 16, 1952 in a farmhouse across from Seal Cove Pond that later became Seal Cove Farm, with ten members. The pastor was Rev. George Wood. In 1953 the little congregation paid $16,000 to buy the old West Tremont Schoolhouse. They added a Sunday school wing in the 1960s.
Description: The George B. Reed house, “one of the few remaining examples of New England continuous architecture in the town” was built on land originally owned by the Dix family. “For a number of years, many Reed reunions were there at the old Reed Homestead…” - “A History of the Houses of West Tremont, Maine” Volumes I, compiled and written by Raymond E. Robbins, Jr., s.n., 1997, p. 94-99. See these five pages for the complicated story of the chain of ownership of this property. [show more]
Description: This house may have been built c. 1839. Wilder Blanchard Robbins bought the property in 1877 and moved the house from the shore across the road to its present location.