Belfast, Maine
Oct 13, 2020
3 minutes
By Bob Arrington
Photos by Dori Arrington
he Scot-Irish people who helped settle and name Belfast, Maine, could have just as appropriately named it Resilience, as it has displayed that characteristic more than any other since its founding. Originally arriving to trade furs with the local Penobscot Indians, early settlers to Belfast shifted to shipbuilding by the time the city’s charter was drafted in 1850. Belfast would go on to remake itself many times over, with
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