 An illustrated postcard of the premises, around 1940 | |
| Founded | 1950 |
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| Founder |
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| Defunct | 2011 |
| Fate | Demolished (2017) |
| Successor | Canelli's Italian Restaurant |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Owner | Ed Ferrell Sue Ferrell |
Down-East Village Restaurant & Motel was a business that existed in Yarmouth, Maine, from 1950 to 2011. It was the second motel built in Maine, and eventually became the oldest in operation. [1] [2]
E. V. Yeager owned a sporting goods business on nearby Route 88, and in 1949 moved it to U.S. Route 1 (US 1), [3] to open the following year as the Down-East Village Motel, with a Gulf gas station. They leased the restaurant to Simpson's Hamburger. [4]
In 1952, Yeager's children took over the restaurant, naming it the Down-Easter. [4] It later passed to Ed Ferrell, Yeager's grandson. [5]
Interstate 295 was built through Yarmouth in 1963, diverting traffic from downtown Yarmouth and, thus, damaging the restaurant's lunch business. [4]
The family built the business back, adding more motel rooms and a swimming pool. [4]
Sue Ferrell began working at the restaurant in 1972. The following year, after Ed Ferrell's father, Herb, had a stroke, Ferrell became the general manager of both the motel and restaurant at the age of 23. [4] [6]
The Ferrells were the recipients of the town's annual Latchstring Award in 2011. [7]
Massachusetts natives Ken and Ellie Arra leased the space from the Ferrells for their Italian restaurant, Canelli's, which opened in 2011 [8] but closed shortly thereafter, with its owners leaving town without informing their staff.
After subsequently lying vacant for several years, the town permitted the buildings to be demolished in 2016. Patriot Insurance Company moved into the new structure the following year. [1] [9]
"Herbie" was an American elm tree located in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It stood by present-day East Main Street, at its intersection with Yankee Drive, for 217 years. At 110 feet in height, it was, between 1997 and the date of its felling, the oldest and largest of its kind in New England. The tree, which partially stood in the front yard of a private residence, also had a 20-foot circumference and a 93-foot crown spread. It was so-named when children witnessed some of its diseased limbs being sawn off. "What are you going to do to Herbie? Don't cut Herbie!" they cried, and the name stuck.
The Captain Reuben Merrill House is an historic house at 233 West Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. Built in 1858, it is one of the town's largest and most elaborate 19th-century houses, and is one of three known surviving works of Portland architect Thomas J. Sparrow. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It is now home to Maine Preservation, a statewide architectural preservation organization.
Yarmouth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, twelve miles north of the state's largest city, Portland. When originally settled in 1636, as North Yarmouth, it was part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and remained part of its subsequent incarnations for 213 years. In 1849, twenty-nine years after Maine's admittance to the Union as the twenty-third state, it was incorporated as the Town of Yarmouth.
The historical buildings and structures of Yarmouth, Maine, represent a variety of building styles and usages, largely based on its past as home to almost sixty mills over a period of roughly 250 years. These mills include that of grain, lumber, pulp and cotton. Additionally, almost three hundred vessels were launched by Yarmouth's shipyards in the century between 1790 and 1890, and the homes of master shipwrights and ship captains can still be found throughout the town.
Forest Paper Company was a pulp and paper mill on the Royal River in Yarmouth, Maine, United States, which was in business between 1874 and 1923. It was the first of its kind in New England. In 1909, it was the largest such mill in the world, employing 275 people. It produced 80 tons of poplar pulp each day.
Pleasant Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It was formerly part of the Atlantic Highway, a precursor to U.S. Route 1. It connects to Lafayette Street, part of today's Maine State Route 88, at Pleasant Street’s southern and northern ends. It has existed since at least 1761, which is when a milestone was placed on the street, on the order of Benjamin Franklin, due to its being on the King's Highway, to denote its distance from Boston, Massachusetts. As part of his duties, Franklin conducted inspections of the roads that were used for delivering mail. One method of charging for mail service was by mileage, so Franklin invented an odometer to measure mileage more accurately. The King's Highway, as a result, morphed into the Post Road.
Main Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is part of the 18-mile-long (29 km) State Route 115 (SR 115), the eastern terminus of which is in Yarmouth at the intersection of Marina Road and Lafayette Street (SR 88), at Yarmouth Harbor in the town's Lower Falls neighborhood. Main Street's western terminus is a merging with Walnut Hill Road in North Yarmouth, at which point SR 115 continues west. There are three distinct sections of Main Street : Lower Falls, Brickyard Hollow and Upper Village.
Andy's Handy Store, colloquially known as Handy Andy's, is a historic building in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. Located at 367 Main Street, at its junction with Elm Street in the town's Upper Village, part of the building dates to 1891. It has been the home to over thirty businesses. As of early 2022, Thoroughfare occupies the entire building.
Homewood Inn is a former inn that was in business in Yarmouth, Maine, from 1912 to 1992. Although the buildings are still standing, they are now used as private residential units.
Nathaniel Foster was a 19th-century American potter and merchant.
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.
Bridge Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 0.36 miles (0.58 km) from Willow Street in the north to the town's Main Street, State Route 115, in the south. The street's elevation is around 75 feet (23 m) at each end, while its middle section, at its crossing of the Royal River, is around 13 feet (4.0 m), a drop of around 62 feet (19 m).
Elm Street is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) from North Road in the north to Portland Street in the south. The street's addresses are split between "West Elm Street" and "East Elm Street", the transition occurring at Main Street in the Upper Village. Several of its buildings are homes dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Portland Street is a historic street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 1.25 miles (2.01 km) from the town's Main Street, State Route 115, in the north to its merge with Middle Road in the south. It is so named because it leads to Portland, the state's largest city, after linking up with State Route 9 in Falmouth, Maine.
Gilman Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It runs for about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) from Lafayette Street in the northwest to the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge at White's Cove in the southeast. At the bridge, which connects the Yarmouth mainland to Cousins Island, the road becomes Cousins Road.
Drinkwater Point Road is a prominent street in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. One of the first streets laid out in what was then coastal North Yarmouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay, it runs for about 0.45 miles (0.72 km) from Gilman Road in the north to Seaborne Drive in the south. Drinkwater Point faces Cousins Island, to which it is connected by the Ellis C. Snodgrass Memorial Bridge, and overlooks inner Casco Bay.
Brickyard Hollow is the central section of Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, located between the Upper Village to the northwest and Lower Falls to the southeast. It is named for the brick-making business that was located across the street from the Masonic Hall at 189 Main Street, beneath the U.S. Route 1 overpass, which was built in the 1870s.
Upper Village is the colloquial name for the western end of Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine, centered around its intersection with Elm Street. It is also known as the Corner.
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.
Staples Hill is a historical section of Main Street in Yarmouth, Maine. It is located, in what is known as Lower 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. Today, both roads join State Route 88 around 450 feet (140 m) apart; historically, however, they provided access to the harbor from the town. The section of Route 88 between the intersections was formerly known as Grantville.