Up the Maine coast to Acadia. Tap a numbered dot and listen.
Narrated by The Chronicler281 km · about 176 min · 34 stories
The stories
In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.
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Portland, Maine
The Portland Observatory Signal Tower
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Falmouth, Maine
Portland's Industrial Locomotive Era
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Yarmouth, Maine
The Pioneer John Cousins
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Freeport, Maine
Yarmouth's Royal River Shipbuilding
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Freeport, Maine
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Topsham, Maine
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Topsham, Maine
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Brunswick Years Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Bowdoinham, Maine
Kennebec River Log Drives
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Richmond, Maine
Thomas Jefferson Southard's Industrial Empire
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Gardiner, Maine
Gardiner's Ice Harvesting Industry
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Farmingdale, Maine
The Rise of Peter Grant
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Augusta, Maine
Hallowell's Granite Industry
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Sidney, Maine
The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 1 of 3
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Sidney, Maine
The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 2 of 3
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Waterville, Maine
The Rise of Augusta Maine Deep Dive · Part 3 of 3
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Waterville, Maine
Waterville's Maine Central Shops
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Benton, Maine
The Benton Grange Movement
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Clinton, Maine
The Connected Farmstead of Springdale
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Pittsfield, Maine
Sebasticook Lake Ancient Fishweirs
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Pittsfield, Maine
The Maine Central Railroad Expansion
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Palmyra, Maine
The Unique Hexagon Barn
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Plymouth, Maine
The Bangor Lumber Barons
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Etna, Maine
The Etna Owl Incident
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Carmel, Maine
The Ruggles Family Wilderness Trek
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Hermon, Maine
The Great Fire of Bangor
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Hampden, Maine
The Founding of Hampden Academy
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Brewer, Maine
Mount Hope Cemetery
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Holden, Maine
Penobscot Nation Land Stewardship
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Dedham, Maine
The Lucerne-in-Maine Dream
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Ellsworth, Maine
Brewer's Historic Shipyards
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Ellsworth, Maine
The Penobscot Expedition Disaster
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Ellsworth, Maine
Agassiz and the Glacial Theory
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Trenton, Maine
The Lucerne Inn Architectural Evolution
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Bar Harbor, Maine
Fred Lincoln Savage's Architecture
Where the stories come from
Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.