The Falls, Hancock, Me. 415.

The Falls, Hancock, Me. 415.

The Reversing falls also called Tidal Falls or Sullivan Falls. The falls are located at the lower end of the Taunton (aka Sullivan) River, as it empties into Frenchman's Bay. The view is from the current Fenchman Bay Conservancy property. See also 106692 Twenty Native American grave sites of the Red Paint People have been excavated at Tidal Falls, dating to 5,000 years ago. Beginning in the 1870s, granite was quarried locally, loaded on Schooners and shipped over the falls. In the 19th century, Tidal Falls was the first site for a railroad and ferry terminal that transported passengers to Bar Harbor. In the 1950s the Hodgkins family operated a lobster pound and later a seafood take-out restaurant at Tidal Falls. - Frenchman Bay Conservancy