In the early 20th century, the gateway from the south to Ellsworth’s Main Street business district was this steel bridge

The presence of the automobile was already being felt on Wiscasset’s Main Street when this picture was taken in the 1920s.

Small frame commercial buildings run along the harbor side of Main Street, Stonington

The horse and buggy meets the automobile in this view of Main Street in Rome, population 440 in 1910.

Main Street Rockland’s Victorian brick commercial buildings

During the 1890s, Main Street developed as Northeast Harbor’s commercial center

Two early 20th century business blocks sheathed in ornamental pressed tin dominate the main street of Mars Hill

Fort Fairfield thrived in the early 20th century as a result of the boom in Aroostook County potato farming.

As the shire town for Franklin County, Farmington has been a center for the courts, commerce, and education

The frame Victorian commercial blocks lining Fairfield’s Main Street in the 1920s

Started as early as the 1850s, paper mills were the economic force which transformed Mechanic Falls

The twin towers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church dominate the center of this view of Main Street, Lille

As paper mills were established at Rumford Falls in the 1890s, many workers and their families

Brunswick has one of Maine’s broadest main streets.