. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. raged all violence, and after some eight weeks of fervid excitementthe war ended as informally as it had begun and the boundary question was answered for good anciall. Its settlement was in one sense a very unfortunate thing for Houlton for it ended the necessityof maintaining a military post there and the withdrawal of the soldiers was a serious blow to the HISTORICAL SEETCB OF HOULTON. 11 The post was
. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. raged all violence, and after some eight weeks of fervid excitementthe war ended as informally as it had begun and the boundary question was answered for good anciall. Its settlement was in one sense a very unfortunate thing for Houlton for it ended the necessityof maintaining a military post there and the withdrawal of the soldiers was a serious blow to the HISTORICAL SEETCB OF HOULTON. 11 The post was evacuated in 1845 and hard times followed, for even a much larger town would havesuffered from the sudden withdrawal of so great a proportion of its population. Valuation of allproperty sunk very low and great inconvenience was experienced before the community adapted itselfto the changed conditioDS, but still the settlement slowly increased and with the progress of time quitea measure of prosperity was enjoyed, but the busy, rich and handsome Houlton of to-day is the resultof the railway facilities enjoyed and it was not until these were provided that the great possibilities of. RiCKKK Classical Institute. the town were made manifest. Houlton was first reached by a railway in 1870, but had previouslyprofited from the building of an iron road, for the New Brunswick and Canada railroad had been com-pleted from St. Andrews to the Woodstock road, five miles from Houlton, in 1862, and the militaryroad furnished connection with the latter town, a large traffic being carried on over it. The Europeanand North American railway was begun in 1868 and completed to Vanceboro in November, 1871, con-nection for Houlton and Woodstock being made six miles east of Vanceboro at McAdam junction. Ofcourse the opening of direct railway communication from Bangor to Houlton and the Provinces was agrand good thing for Houltons business interests, and although the railway companies have in someinstance
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