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    Towse's Corner, U. S. Route 1, Edmunds, Maine

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    Towse's Corner, U. S. Route 1, Edmunds, Maine

    The house of W. Towse marked this unusually sharp corner until the highway was straightened in the 1950's. In her history of Dennysville and Edmunds Rebecca Hobart writes: "The remainder of U.S. Route One, including the very crooked section between the Guide Board and Towse corner, was constructed and for the most part, rerouted, from near Bell's Bridge to Dennys River in the 1950's."

    Towse's Corner, U. S. Route 1, Edmunds, Maine; The road leading into the woods on the right was a notoriously sharp corner before U.S. Route 1 was straightened in 1950's.
    South Edmunds and County Road in 1881; Angular corners on U.S. Route 1 were removed or modified in the course of the twentieth century, leaving many sections of road stranded to return to nature, such as Towse's Corner, seen on the 1881 Colby Atlas map of Washington County, Maine.