Explore Main Street from the Route 11 intersection at the north end
to Thorne's Bend at the south. Hover over any building to see details about
the business or institution that calls it home. Active businesses are shown
in warm tones; vacant and former properties appear muted with dashed outlines.
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BANGOR & AROOSTOOK RAILROAD
Route 11 Main Street Elm Street River Road Mill Pond Road Farr Road Sugarhouse Road Gazette Lane Boucher's Irving & Towing — Gas station, convenience store, towing. Randy Boucher, proprietor. Open daily from 6 AM. Coffee fund runs on the honor system. ⛽ TOWING Boucher's Irving & Towing 1 Willow Creek General Store — Maeve O'Donnell, third-generation proprietor (est. 1923). Hardware, canned goods, deli counter, fishing licenses. Ice-Out entry posting board in the front window. GENERAL STORE CHALKBOARD General Store Est. 1923 2 Northwoods Outfitters — Julia Chen, proprietor. Outdoor gear, canoe/kayak/SUP rentals, guided paddling trips. Season: May–October. Faint ghost sign reading 'Pendelton's Hardware' on the facade. NORTHWOODS Pendelton's Hardware 🛶 Northwoods Outfitters 3 Willow Creek Gazette — Clara Winslow, publisher. Weekly newspaper serving Aroostook County since 1797. Also known as the Gazette Building. Kyle Dubois, staff reporter. GAZETTE BUILDING 🏛 PRESS Willow Creek Gazette 4 Willow Creek Free Public Library — Doris Kim, town librarian. Carnegie library built 1904. Houses the local history collection with bound Gazette volumes dating to 1927 and a complete Ice-Out scrapbook. CARNEGIE LIBRARY Public Library Est. 1904 5 Willow Creek Post Office — Martin 'Marty' Croft, postmaster (since 2002). Housed in the former dentist's office. Leased space. Marty knows every resident by mailbox number. U.S. POST OFFICE ✉ P.O. Post Office 6 Town Hall — Board of Selectmen, Town Clerk's Office, Town Treasurer. Arthur Pendelton, First Selectman. Margaret Hollis, Town Clerk. Annual Town Meeting every second Tuesday of March. TOWN HALL Selectmen's Office Town Clerk (Annex) Town Hall 7 The Dry Dock Restaurant — Dean Moreau, chef/owner. Farm-to-table dining in the renovated Thorne & Sons boat shed. Private dining room: the Lydia Barnes Room. Written up in Down East magazine. THE DRY DOCK 🍽 The Dry Dock Restaurant 8 Vacant storefront — former retail space. Part of the seven vacant storefronts along Main Street. Eleanor Vance's economic platform includes tax incentives to fill them. FOR LEASE (vacant) Former Bangor Savings Bank Branch — Closed 2015. Willow Creek's last physical bank. Still vacant. FORMER BANK (closed 2015) Vacant storefront — one of seven empty properties along Main Street. Former retail / commercial space. VACANT Vacant storefront — one of seven empty properties along Main Street. Former retail / commercial space. VACANT Vacant storefront — one of seven empty properties along Main Street. Former retail / commercial space. VACANT Willow Creek Custom Flooring, LLC — Stu Peller, general manager. Hardwood flooring manufacturing, historic restoration niche. Housed in the original 1903 mill site. Largest private employer in town (~40 employees). CUSTOM FLOORING Mill Site (est. 1903) Willow Creek Custom Flooring 9 Thibodeau & Sons — Ray Thibodeau, fifth-generation master carpenter. Historical restoration and general contracting. Family line traces to Jean-Baptiste Thibodeau, a ship's joiner who arrived from Quebec in 1823. THIBODEAU & SONS Carpentry · Restoration 10 O'Flaherty's Maple — Niall O'Flaherty, proprietor. Family sugarbush started 1958. 400 taps, ~80 gallons per season. Sells to The Dry Dock and from a roadside stand. Niall holds a forestry degree from UMaine Orono. O'FLAHERTY'S 🍁 Maple Syrup Family Sugarbush 11 Farr Family Farm — Henry Farr, third-generation dairy farmer. 35 Holsteins (down from 80 in the 1950s). The last working dairy farm in Willow Creek town limits. Established 1919 by Elias Farr. FARR FAMILY FARM Dairy · Est. 1919 12 Thorne's Bend LAUNCH Willow River Main Street Willow Creek, Maine — A Bird's-Eye View N S E W KEY Active business — hover for details Vacant / former property Numbered reference 0 ~200 ft ~400 ft
Hover over buildings for details · Buildings not to scale · Based on Willow Creek town records
Sources: Willow Creek town records, Gazette archives,
community profiles. Compiled by the Willow Creek Gazette staff.
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