From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
LB2016.13.316
Two boys trudge a snowy path up to a Federal era brick house while it served as the Post Office in Winterport. The double-chimney house, with its arched doorway, granite lintels, and elegant proportions, had been the home of Archibald Jones, a a lawyer and local historian. In a letter he writes of being a member of a "large party of gentlemen and ladies on an [1811] excursion...(during which) one of the gentlemen ascended a large pine tree on the most elevated part of the hill and as is usual in naming a vessel at a launch, broke a bottle and proclaimed the name of that hill Mount Waldo." -- The Maine Historical Magazine, Vol. 7, p.39
