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    Isaac Hobart House Site at Little Falls

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    Sketch of Isaac Hobart House Site at Little Falls, from Eastport and Passamaquoddy " by William Henry Kilby, 1888, and contemporary photograph of the house site as it appears in 2023.

    Isaac Hobart first built a small house at Little Falls on the point near the mills, in 1793, living in it with his wife, Joanna Hersey, whom he married in 1794, and their six children, until 1806, when he had a larger dwelling built about four rods above their first home. The original house was then taken down and sold to an Eastport man by the name of Hamilton. Isaac Hobart built his second home on the hill above Hobart Stream in 1806. In 1808 on the death of his father, Col. Aaron Hobart, Isaac purchased the wildlands belonging to the heirs and became owner of three-fourths of the township. Isaac and Joanna's son Benjamin resided in the house after his parents moved to Eastport in 1826. In 1926 Benjamin's great grandson, Richard Hobart Sr., had the old house torn down and replaced with a new one, using many of the materials from the former dwelling.

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    Isaac Hobart's Saw and Grist Mill at Little Falls, Edmunds, Maine
    Map of the Eastern Portion of Edmunds in 1839

    Sketch of Isaac Hobart's House at Little Falls, Edmunds, Maine; Sketch of Isaac Hobart's second house, built at Little Falls in 1806 to replace an earlier dwelling, is it appeared in
    Isaac Hobart's original house site at Little Falls in 2023 Isaac Hobart's House and Mills at Little Falls in Township X, now Edmunds, 1798; Isaac Hobart's first house, built in 1792, appears near his barn at the site of his grist and saw-mills on this detail from Solomon Cushing's big map of map of Townships No. I and II, completed around 1798. Isaac Hobarts second house at Little Falls, 1839; Isaac Hobarts second house, built in 1806, was located about four rods from his earlier dwelling beside the mill seat at Little Falls in Edmunds, Maine.