|
Population
|
N. Latitude |
44:25:33 |
| 1970 |
5,957 |
W. Longitude |
69:01:37 |
|
Waldo County |
| 1980 |
6,243 |
Maine House District |
105 |
|
Maine Senate District |
11 |
| 1990 |
6,355 |
Congress District |
1 |
| |
| 2000 |
6,381 |
Area in square miles |
34.0 |
|
Population/sq.mi. |
188 |
Broiler Festival c. 1950, Belfast
George W. French Collection,
Maine State Archives
Belfast City Hall
Belfast High School
The Post Office
|
BELFAST
[BELL-fast]
is a city in Waldo County and is its county seat,
incorporated as a town on June 29, 1773 and as Maine's eighth city on April
3, 1852. In 1845 it set off land to form part of Searsport.
 With its location
on Penobscot Bay, its shipping and shipbuilding brought a population growth
of 1,000 per decade between 1810 and 1850. Its rail line and steamboat
service provided critical transportation links. Later the shoe industry
emerged with a factory off Main Street.
The City's historic district features an interesting
variety of architectural styles, primarily the product of the booming economy of
the 19th century.
Houses in Belfast's Historic District
 
Churches in Belfast
In the 1950's, 1960's
and 1970's, Belfast was home to the chicken broiler industry and two of
Maine's larger processors: Maplewood and Penobscot Poultry companies. The
harbor, once polluted and shunned by pleasure boaters, has been transformed in
recent years with scores of sailing yachts and motor boats. At the same
time, the downtown has revived with shops and restaurants catering the the
increasing number of tourists.
Gothic-like buildings in the downtown
Currently the city
is a site for the giant credit card processing company MBNA which now employs
over 1,500 workers in Belfast, and many more in other Maine locations.
Congressional Medal of Honor winner:
Spanish-American War
HERBERT LOUIS FOSS
National Register of Historic Places - Listings
Belfast Commercial
Historic District 4/4/80, Main Street between
Church and Cross Streets
Belfast Historic District
8/21/86, roughly bounded by
High, Grove and Elm; Congress, Main and Market and Imrose
Belfast Historic District
(Boundary Increase) 4/2/93, 59--63 Anderson Street
Belfast National Bank
4/23/73, Main and Beaver Streets
Black Horse Tavern
2/11/82, Searsport Avenue
Church Street Historic
District 11/28/7, Irregular pattern
along Church Street from High to Franklin Streets
First Church of Belfast
11/7/76, Church Street, Hayford Block 8/29/77, 47 Church Street
Masonic Temple 4/26/73, High Street (U.S.
1)
Primrose Hill Historic
District 10/3/73, High and Anderson
Streets
White, James P., House
4/24/73, 1 Church Street |
