Wiley's Corner, St. George, ME. 46

Wiley's Corner, St. George, ME. 46

Wiley's Corner, St. George, ME. The J. A. Elwell store is located to the right in the photograph with the horse and buckboard in front. It later served as a garage and storage shed. The attached building on the left was moved about a mile away on the road to Spruce Head around 1960. Elwell's home, built in 1876 by the Glover Company, is in the center of the photograph (with the large, attached barn on the right) The white house beyond and to the left of the Elwell home, built c.1830, was the home of John Robinson's son, Isaac. It is now occupied by Gloria Hill Dennison. To the right of the store (long, low building) is probably the home of John Robinson (1750-1816). The building was torn down in the 1930s by Russell Thomas. One of John Robinson's daughters married Adam Wiley and likely inherited the homestead. Robinson's grandson, John Robinson Wiley had a store (gone before this photograph was taken) in the then vacant space between the photographer and the horse. When the "new road" that swings to the right, was constructed in 1851, a corner was created, then called "FWiley's Store Corner" abbreviated to Wiley's Corner. The unenformed sometimes refer to the entire village as Wiley's Corner rather its historically correct name of St. George. The vehicle in front of the barn is the Eastern Illustrating photographer's vehicle..