05/28/2026
Stockton Springs native, Harriet Hichborn, was the daughter of a wealthy local shipbuilder who poured herself into photography. Stockton Springs Historical Society donated Hichborn’s glass plates to PMM in 2015. We are currently re-digitizing them to higher standards. Her views of the Cape Jellison docks are an engrossing window on the heyday of the locale as a shipping hub. Hichborn made these photos between 1900 and 1920.
-Lumber sits waiting to be loaded aboard a schooner.
-Construction crews are busy extending the pier at Cape Jellison Docks, and the water near shore is choked with pilings boomed town the Penobscot River, probably from Bangor. A handful of vessels lie berthed at the pier in the background.
-The four-masted schooner Northland, the steamship Millinocket, and a flat barge sit in dock at the Cape Jellison pier.
-Hichborn photographed the same scene from behind the railroad tracks flanking the waterfront, with the Northland in the foreground and the Millinocket behind.
-In this southeasterly view, two- and three-masted schooners sit in dock at a Cape Jellison pier stacked with lumber. Captain Melvin Colcord’s ferry launch idles toward a landing with several passengers.
-This busy scene of the piers at Cape Jellison Docks shows the piers crowded with Maine Central and Bangor and Aroostook boxcars and flat cars heavily loaded with lumber. In the background at dock are several three- and four-masted schooners.
-The four-masted schooner Horace A. Stone unloads construction materials at Cape Jellison Docks.
-At the Docks, the steamship Millinocket lies at berth on the right and the four-masted schooner Northland at the left. The motor launch in the foreground and her skipper are not identified.
