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The First Falls are the first of four waterfalls in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. They are located on the Royal River, approximately a mile from its mouth with inner Casco Bay at Yarmouth Harbor and around 0.35 miles (0.56 km) downstream of the Second Falls. The river appealed to settlers because its 45-foot rise in close proximity to navigable water each provided potential waterpower sites. As such, each of the four falls was used to power 57 mills between 1674 and the mid-20th century.The local Native Americans called the First Falls (or Lower Falls) Pumgustuk, which means head of tide. (The town's early firefighters were called Pumgustuk Fire Company. Their eponymous pumper was purchased in 1856 and retired in 1928.)

Grist Mill Park is an urban park in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Located on East Main Street, in the town's Lower Falls area, and overlooking the Royal River's First Falls from the east, the park partly occupies the former site of a 17th-century sawmill. That mill was built in October 1674 by Englishman Henry Sayward and Colonel Bartholomew Gedney. The foundations of a later mill, Lower Grist Mills, constitutes today's overlook of the river. Lower Grist Mills was built in 1813 and was in business for 36 years, grinding wheat and corn into flour using power generated by the water turbines set in the fast-flowing river below. Between 1870 and 1885, it was the site of Ansel Loring's second mill, named Yarmouth Flour Mill. The park is around 0.5 acres (0.20 ha).

35 East Main Street, also known as the Jeremiah Baker House, is a historic four-storey home at 35 East Main Street in the Lower Falls area of Yarmouth, Maine. Between 1780 and the turn of the 19th century, Lower Falls saw an increase in its population after early settlers gradually moved inland from the area around the Meetinghouse under the Ledge on Gilman Road. Built in 1848, possibly for William Stockbridge, before Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth, the home overlooks Yarmouth Marina, which was a bustling working harbor from the early to late 19th century, and the area of the harbor historically known as Grantville. It stands adjacent to the Johnathan True House. One of its early owners was Jeremiah Baker, a shipbuilder, who lived here between 1857 and around 1871.The building's above-ground brick basement was once used a store, named Oakes & Mitchell and run by Nathan Oakes and Daniel Mitchell.

The Royal River is a small river, 39 miles (63 km) long, in southern Maine. The river originates in Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester and flows northeasterly into Auburn and then southerly through New Gloucester (via the Royal River Reservoir), Gray and North Yarmouth into Casco Bay at Yarmouth. The river is bridged by Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 202 before leaving New Gloucester, then by the Maine Central Railroad "Back Road" and the Grand Trunk Railway in Auburn, and then again by the Grand Trunk Railway and by State Route 231 when it returns to New Gloucester. The river is bridged twice more by the Maine Central Back Road in Gray. In North Yarmouth, the river is bridged again by State Route 231 and by State Route 9, and in Yarmouth it is crossed by the Maine Central Railroad "Lower Road", again by the Grand Trunk Railway, by U.S. Route 1 and, at its mouth, by State Route 88 (carried by the East Main Street Bridge) and, finally, Interstate 295. The Native Americans called the river Westcustogo River (meaning muddy) or Pumgustuck River (falls at mouth of river).During the 1700s and 1800s, Yarmouth River, as it was then known, was a source of great economic growth for Yarmouth as it provided the power for the many mills. One such mill was erected in 1872 by the Forest Paper Company on the current site of the Royal River Park. The river is mentioned in several of Maine-native Stephen King's novels, including The Body, when the boys cross the Royal River, only to be attacked by leeches, as well as 'Salem's Lot and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The McKin Company Superfund site was within the Royal River watershed.

Hose No. 2 is a former fire station in the Lower Falls area of Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Built around 1889, seven years before the town's first fire hydrants were installed, it stands in a wedge-shaped plot of land separating Main Street and Marina Road at what was formerly known as Staples Hill (named for Bethiah Staples, who lived at nearby 63 Main Street). By 1901, the town had "two hose companies of fifteen men each" and a hook and ladder company of ten men. A system of fire alarms, consisting of eight boxes, were in the process of being installed.

Yarmouth Marina is a natural harbor and estuary of Casco Bay, and is located adjacent to the town of Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is situated on the Royal River, around 0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the town center, in an area known as Lower Falls. Today it functions solely as a marina. Historically a harbor, due to its proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, into which the Royal River flows via Casco Bay, less than a mile away, ships were built in the harbor mainly between 1818 and the 1870s, at which point demand declined dramatically.

The Johnathan True House is a historic home at 43 East Main Street in the Lower Falls area of Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1780, before Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth, it is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the town. Between 1780 and the turn of the 19th century, Lower Falls saw an increase in its population after early settlers gradually moved inland from the area around the Meetinghouse under the Ledge on Gilman Road.The home was originally built for Johnathan True, a clothier who owned a store at Lower Falls. It was later associated with Dr. David Jones and David Pratt, one of the town's earliest shipbuilders.The rear of the property now overlooks Interstate 295 after it was built above Yarmouth's harbor in 1961.

Staples Hill is a historical section of Main Street (State Route 115) in Yarmouth, Maine. It is located, in what is known as Lower Falls (or Falls Village or The Falls), at Main Street's split with Marina Road. Main Street continues on, down a substantial hill, to First Falls, while Marina Road leads, in a similar fashion, toward Yarmouth Marina, where ships were built between the late 18th and late 19th centuries. Both roads provided access to the harbor from the town. The hill is names for Bethiah Staples, who lived at nearby 63 Main Street.Built around 1889, the prominent former fire station Hose No. 2, at 50 Main Street, is the first building in the wedge of land formed by the split in the road. Several more are located behind it, such as 46 Main Street, as the land slopes down to the First Falls and the harbor.

51 East Main Street, also known as the William R. Stockbridge House, is a historic home in Yarmouth, Maine. It was built in 1810, on today's State Route 88, before Yarmouth's secession from North Yarmouth. Its original owner was merchant William Stockbridge.Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, stayed in the building prior to his death in 1834. The nearby section of Route 88 is named Lafayette Street in his honor.Stockbridge is believed to be the original 1848 owner of 35 East Main Street, just a few yards down the hill.After Stockbridge's death in 1850, the home changed hands several times. In the 1920s, Adaline Crockett converted it into the Royal River Inn. Crockett's Royal River Cabins were in operation between 1934 and 1950 on the ocean side of nearby Spring Street, at its split with East Main Street. The enterprise began as an inn in the property, and continued as its office until the 1940s. In 1946, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her entourage stayed in one of the cabins because the Eastland Park Hotel in Portland would not permit her dog, Fala, to stay in the hotel.The building retains its original Federal-style door surround, fanlight, windows, trim and siding.The rear of the property now overlooks Interstate 295, after it was built above Yarmouth's harbor in 1961.In front of the property there stood a milestone providing the distance to Boston. The preceding one, on Pleasant Street, gives a distance of 138 miles (222 km). The milestones are part of the Boston-to-Machias extension of the Charleston-to-Boston "King's Highway".

Lower Falls is the colloquial name for the eastern end of Main Street, and part of East Main Street, in Yarmouth, Maine, centered around Main Street’s intersection with Portland Street. It is also known as Falls Village or The Falls. 19th- and 20th-century homes and business that existed here are listed below, roughly from east to west.

68 East Main Street is a historic home in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It was built in 1785, when the town was part of North Yarmouth (then a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay), around seventy years after the third, and earliest permanent, settlement of the town.Standing on East Main Street, at the corner of Yankee Drive, the property became the home of deacon Calvin Stockbridge, brother of merchant William Stockbridge, who lived across East Main Street. Grist mill and sawmill owner Peter Weare also lived here.The building had doubled in size by 1790. It has also served as a tavern, a general store and, between 1900 and 1907, a college preparatory and home school for girls, known as Stockbridge Hall and run by Alice and Minerva Dufour.The home stood across Yankee Drive from "Herbie", which was planted in 1793, eight years after the home was completed, and was felled 217 years later in 2010. It was, between 1997 and 2010, the oldest and largest American elm in New England.

Atwell's Creek is a former watercourse in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is named for John Atwell, who married Elizabeth Felt, daughter of Joshua.Flowing into the southern edge of Yarmouth harbor, it was used from the early 18th century to power various mills, the first being Massachusetts native Gilbert Winslow's sawmill in 1720. The creek received its nickname of Folly's Creek at this time, because Winslow's venture was expected by many people to fail, but it proved to be "a profitable concern." The creek was "a considerable watercourse then"; now, though, it is nothing more than a tidal inlet.