Main Street Mapleton at the intersection of Pulcifur. Fox Family Chip factory, formerly Mapleton One Stop is the white building on the left center and the largest building in the right center is nolonger standing.

Down Town Mapleton Maine

The three buildings in the center were Walter Morrison's Store, across from that was Alton Waddell's IGA and the Esso Station owned by Leighton Keirstead and the two story building in behind was Jack Newells garage and he lived above it.

The two story home behind the garage was my parents home from 1973 to 2011; they bought it from Jack and Celia Newall. Dad ran Mapleton Autobody there for many years. Now Iris Dutile owns it.

My house is the one in the left top corner with the black car in the driveway and two trees right in front. Joey's maternal grandparents lived in it before we got it. Judy and Harold Hull were their names. They bought the house in the 60's so they may or may not have been living there a time of picture.

This is so cool! My parents, Dale and Sylvia McHatten's house, and my childhood home, is in the top right corner. This was taken the year before I was born.

My childhood home is in the center back. My parents, Charles & Helen Finnemore lived there until 1966.
I helped Alton & Lora Waddell stock shelves with can goods in the store front center. I was paid with penney candy! I loved doing that on Saturday mornings. The white building lower left held the Post Office on the main floor, Bob & Delores Levasseur, the barber, lived in the upstairs apartment and the basement held the Barber Shop. I used to love to go with Fran Levasseur into her dad's barber shop, it smelled so good! Nearly every boy in town had a "crew cut" and waxed it to stand up! We played tin can alley on the dead end street in back of our house and a lot of baseball. Great memories of growing up in down town Mapleton!

mapleton had 4 stores then

I lived in an apartment in the big building in the center from 1978 to 1980. The addition on the back was not there then. This is where I met my wife Tamra. My first apartment was on the ground floor in the back and after we got married we moved into a bigger apartment upstairs. Dick Eaton owned the building then. We have been married for 35 years this June.

We lived in the top floor apartment of the building in the foreground from 1956 to 1960 when we moved to Caribou. I used to get my bangs cut at the barbershop next door and we used to buy candy at Johnny's store. Went ice skating on the Aroostook river next door; back then the river would freeze solid and in the spring would sometimes flood the driveway at the back of the building.

My brother Leighton Keirstead, owner of Mapleton Esso, was eternally grateful to Hayward Higgins for having trust in him to sell him the service station to be paid for over time from the profits. Hayward built the station to give employment to his potato starch factory employees when it was closed for environmental reasons.