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Encyclopedia Britannica



CALAIS

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 967 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
CALAIS , a city and sub-port of entry of Washington county, Maine, U.S.A., on the Saint Croix river, 12 M. from its mouth, opposite Saint Stephens, New Brunswick, with which it is connected by bridges. Pop. (1890) 7290;.(1900),7655 (1908 being foreign-born ; (1910) 6116. It is served by the Washington County railway (102.5 M. to Washington Junction, where it connects with the Maine Central railway), and by steamboat lines to Boston,
Portland
  and Saint Johns. In the city limits are the post-offices of Calais, Milltown and Red
Beach
 . The city has a small public library. The valley here is wide and deep, the banks of the river bold and picturesque, and the tide rises and falls about 25 ft. The city has important interests in lumber, besides foundries,
machine
  shops, granite worksthere are several granite (notably red granite) quarries in the vicinitya tannery, and manufactories of shoes and calcined plaster. Big
Island
 , now in the city of Calais, was visited in the winter of 16041605 by Pierre du Guast, sieur de Monts. Calais was first settled in 1779, was incorporated as a town in 1809, and was chartered as a city in 1851.


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