View Looking North, St. George, ME. 42

View Looking North, St. George, ME. 42

View Looking North, St. George, ME Tom Mckellar, married to a granddaughter of John Robinson, began building the house in the foreground, though he didn't finish it. The task fell to Fred Robinson's father Captain John Robinson. Robinson died young in 1885 from a fever contracted while on a voyage, and left the house to his widow who married J. A. Ewell nad rented the house as the parsonage, and in turn, left it to her son, Captain Fred Robinson. This part of the village was "taken up" by John Robinson from Cushing and gradually carved into smaller lots by his descendants. The house in the center was bui8lt for John Robinson's grandson, John Robinson Wiley and was the first house built on the "New Road." The building to its leftwas his store and Post Office. It is possibler that Maynard Kinney moved the building or tore it down for materials.for a hen house sometime in the 1930s. John R. Wiley had a small vessel he used to "trade" from here to Boston (1840s - 1850s). Robert Skogland moved the house back to save it from destruction when the road was redirected in the 1970s. Although greatly altered, it yet survives.