Rockland, Maine, USA
1895 - Rockland

Rockland, a city, the capital of Knox co., Me., is situated on the W. shore of Penobscot Bay, about 10 miles from the ocean, and 40 miles E.S.E. of Augusta. It is 49 miles E.N.E. of Bath, with which it is connected by the Knox & Lincoln division of the Maine Central Railroad. Steamboats plying between Boston and Bangor touch at its wharves, and it is the terminus of a dozen steamboat lines connecting with adjacent islands and coastwise towns. Rockland contains 9 churches, a county court-house of brick and granite, costing about $80,000, a granite post office and custom-house erected at a cost of about $175,000, a public library, 3 national banks, a state bank, a savings bank, a system of graded schools, and printing-offices which issue a daily and 3 or 4 weekly newspapers. Water is brought to this city by costly water-works from a lake 9 miles distant. Rockland has an iron-foundry, several machine-shops, a brass-foundry, and numerous lime-kilns, the city being the largest producer of lime in the country. Ship-building is also carried on here. About 1,500,000 casks of good lime are annually exported from this port. Here are large quarries of excellent granite, which £ supplied material for the custom-house of St. Louis and the post-offices of New York and Cincinnati. An electric railroad traverses the principal streets of the city and connects it with other towns of the county, the plant also furnishing light and power to three towns. This town was incorporated in 1848, and chartered as a city in 1854. Pop. in 1860, 7316; in 1870, 7074; in 1880, 7599; in 1890, 8174.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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