From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2007.1.113628
View of Miller Street from Congress Street looking east toward the waterfront. The house on the right is the residence of Reverend Joseph Ricker (circa 1849). Rev. Joseph Ricker, a graduate of Waterville College in the class of 1839, succeeded Mr. Edward Very as pastor of the First Baptist Church, and remained until January, 1853, when he accepted a call from Woburn, Mass. He later returned to Maine, and resided in Augusta. The honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by his Alma Mater in 1868. During the pastorate of Mr. Ricker, the church obtained a new communion service, and voted to give the old set to the church in Patten. On the left side of the street is the residence (Cape Cod style) of John Lane (circa 1832). Next along is the residence of Stephen Longfellow (circa 1826), an early cobbler that settled in Belfast in 1804. In old times, the circuit cobbler paid his annual visit to every farm-house, bringing his "kit," and stopping several days ; long enough, perhaps, to make shoes for the family sufficient to last a year. Stephen Longfellow died March 15, 1859, aged 80.
