Built ca 1867 by Leonard Bond Chapman
90 Capisic Street
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Glimpses. 1227 Westbrook Street
Glimpses. 17 Garrison Street. The William Slemmons house.
Built around 1786. William 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 1920’s, 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.
