With Thought to the Future

The Maine Trading Post building, now housing Kaler's restaurant, was built in 1908 as Sherman's Livery Stable, with small lower windows marking some of its 70 horse stalls for rental horses often used by traveling salesmen arriving by steamer. An elevator inside moved carriages and sleighs to the upper floor, but even when the building was constructed, a place for automobiles was planned in the business. By 1915, the firm's inventory included two Ford touring cars and a truck, and it was billed as Sherman's Livery and Garage. From the harbor, the building can also be seen above the stern of the navy subchaser SC138, which was built in 1917 at Hodgdon's yard in East Boothbay and patrolled the Atlantic seaboard until the end of World War I.

Boothbay Harbor, Maine · United States