A story of revival
Category Archives: Stroudwater
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90 Capisic Street
72 Bradley Street. By request.
Glimpses. 1227 Westbrook Street
Glimpses. 17 Garrison Street.
Built ca: 1786 by William Slemmons

Slemmons operated a grist mill on the Stroudwater River dam behind his home.
Glimpses. 1246 Westbrook Street
Built in 1802 by Oakes Sampson

Home, in the early 1920s, to the American Impressionist painter Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin.
1365 Westbrook Street. The Francis Waldo / Daniel Dole house.

Much has been said and written about General Samuel Waldo. War hero. Scoundrel. Promoter of colonial settlement. Opportunist. Above all of these, for our purposes, he was a powerful force in the early settlement of Portland and the area.





