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Pike Mile Markers | Route 1, Calais and Robbinston, MaineDescription
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Calais, Maine
From Sunrise County Architecture (2nd revised and enlarged edition) 1996, p. 11:
PIKE MILE MARKERS (CALAIS-ROBBINSTON)
About 122 years ago, between 1860 and 1870, James Shepard Pike (1811-1882), of Calais, erected twelve ~ granite mile markers along the road (now U. S. Highway One) between Calais and Robbinston. Since Pikes winter home was on Main Street in Calais (site of the present Calais Free Library), while his summer dwelling was the Mansion House in Robbinston, he used his mile markers to tell how fast his carriage horses ran. In August, 1994, the Pike Mile Markers were to be nominated for the National Register of Historic Places. Members of the St. Croix Historical Society spent a day, August 23, 1994, restoring the markers (and replacing one missing stone with a red granite replica.) Gene Greco is the painter. Other St. Croix Historical Society members who helped refurbish and re-set the Mile Markers in 1994 were Bob Hill, Ron Miller, Mike Reynolds, and Brand Livingstone. (photo by Eric Serrano for S1. Croix Courier, St. Stephen, N.B., Canada! Calais, Maine, U.SA., August 26, 1994. St. C.C.)
Description: Twelve granite mileage markers along U.S. Route 1 between Robbinston and Calais, placed there (between 1860-1870) by James Shepard Pike, who had a summer home in Robbinston and a winter home in Calais. On National Register of Historic Places. [Source: In part or entirety taken from "Sunrise County Architecture," 2nd edition, 1996, with permission of Sunrise Research Institute, Inc.]
Location: On the east side of U.S. Route 1, at one mile intervals between the Mansion House in Robbinston and the intersection of U.S. 1 and North Street in Calais. U.S. Route 1, Calais