Samuel L. Jones House Site and Carpentry Shop, Dennysville Maine
This is one of three houses on King Street belonging to the Joneses, all the sons of Benjamin R. Jones, who moved from Edmunds to the next-to-last house on Lincoln (the Narrows) Road--now Foster Lane. Samuel Jones built his house on the lot adjoining Samuel Eastman's. He and his wife, Mary (Sherman) had a family of eight children. Among others who resided there were Fred and Alice (Creamer) Tuell, and Ray and Florence (Lund) Foster. It later became the home of Philip and Dorothy (Lund) Smith, who moved from Marion. The house was removed in the early 21st century. The dwelling of Stephen H. and Eliza Jones, erected on the lot next to his brother, Samuel's, was the birthplace of their eleven children. For many years, while he was the mail contractor from Machias to Eastport, the Stephen Joneses operated a stage house. The house also served as the residence of Walter and Nellie (Harrison) Dodge, and Mrs. Rebecca Stoddard before being purchased by Jesse and Grace (Robinson) Crosby, who were succeeded by their daughter and son-in-law, Dorothy and Glenn Stevens. The house was later the home of George and Violet Stevens before being unoccupied and finally torn down about 2015. In 1881 the Colby Atlas map of Dennysville shows a carpenter shop between the blacksmith shop that was at one time owned by William Kilby, later by Ben Jones, and then by A.L.R. Gardner's, and a store or shop owned by Samuel L. Jones. As blacksmithing and woodworking often went hand in hand, the carpenter's shop may have been an extension of the blacksmith's business next door. In his journal entry for March 28, 1908, Fred Gardner gave the history of the Samuel L. Jones shop, on Water Street, as follows: "Ed Hayward began tearing down the Stephen Jones shop (so called) situated at the right of the water course on the river side, nearly in front of the house. At different times and long before my time, it has been occupied as a house, a man named Steadman had traded there, John Green had a tailor's shop there, J. HInkley a tin shop, T. Robinson a fish stand, and so on. We have used it for a storehouse. It was unsightly and got out of repair so we have removed it."
