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Blue Hill Striving to Preserve Its
Rural Character
Located off the beaten tourism path, Blue Hill remained relatively
undiscovered for years. Its population has always swelled
during the summer, mostly from the seasonal influx of people
who had built vacation homes there. But over the past decade,
Blue Hill has grown considerably.
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| Today:
Issues |
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Industrial-Scale Salmon Farming Challenged
It’s more than just a town: Blue Hill shares its name with a
mountain, a peninsula and a bay, not to mention dozens of
organizations and businesses. As the highest point for miles
around, Blue Hill Mountain is a defining landmark for what has
become a distinct region of the coast.
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Schools |
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Blue Hill’s Remarkable High School
Thirty-six years after he started teaching at the George Stevens
Academy, John Greene has a unique perspective on the town’s most
enduring school.
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A Mainstay on Union Street
The shift of Blue Hill’s retail stores from Main Street to South
Street, on the outskirts of the shopping district, started in
the late ’80s. And aside from the Merrill & Hinckley store, the
town’s downtown has not been the same since.
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| Yesterday |
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Kneisel Hall at 100
Blue Hill’s reputation as a gathering place for classical musicians
is largely due to one man and his penchant for year-round study.
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“That’s What Makes Relations”
For
the first time in years, Rufus Candage gets to enjoy his two
favorite staples of summer, baseball and the Blue Hill Fair.
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Fair a Place for People and Pigs
What’s not to like about the Blue Hill Fair? Perhaps even more
than people identify the town with music or the bay or healthy
living, they consider the Blue Hill Fair pure Blue Hill.
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| Written and
photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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Go
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Acreage: 36,301
Population, 2000: 2,390
Population, 1990: 3,000
Population 19 years old and younger, 2000: 583
Median age: 44.7
Schools: Blue Hill Consolidated School; The Bay
School; Liberty School; George Stevens Academy
Library: Blue Hill Public Library
Churches: Baptist 3, Congregational 1, Episcopal
2, Pentecostal 1
Town Meeting: Third Friday in March
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Milestones |
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1760s: Blue Hill is one of the David Marsh townships granted to the
veterans of the last war against the French.
1789: After being known first as North Andover, then
as New Port, the town charter establishes its name as Blue Hill.
1792: First vessel built by the shipbuilders who
gave Blue Hill its first prosperity. By 1882, more than 130 vessels,
mostly schooners, have been built.
1796: The Ladies Social Library forms as one of the
earliest libraries in the state.
1814: Parsonage, now the Fisher House, built for
Jonathan Fisher, the first settled minister of Blue Hill.
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