by Sarah Craighead Dedmon

The St. Croix Historical Society in Calais recently drew social media attention to a Concord Coach that, in the mid-1800s, regularly traveled “the Shoreland Route” from Bangor to Ellsworth to Machias, finally arriving in Calais. Painted in its signature red, the roof of the coach is painted “Bangor, Machias, & Calais.” Nothing is known about where the coach stopped in Machias.