2. Waterfront

These two reveals are the Ellsworth waterfront with logging off to the right below. In 1913 Ellsworth’s largest business Whitcomb, Haynes and Company owned mill properties, wharves, timberlands and interests in 35 vessels. Logs were driven to the mills in Ellsworth Falls and finished lumber carried by teams down State St. to the wharves along Water Street. Two mills at Ellsworth Falls produced barrel staves for the cement trade in Rondout on the Hudson River, making Ellsworth Falls the  “barrel stave capital of Maine” in 1900. With a nod to Ellsworth’s rich studio artist community, the logging reveal is seen at the end of a glassblower’s blowpipe.