several key mayors

Several recent Hallowell Mayors are shown here, Robert Stubbs, Harvey Harmon, Barry Timson and Mark Walker.

Mayor Robert Stubbs is wearing a SAVE HALLOWELL t-shirt. In the 1975 Maine Department of Transportation wanted to widen Route 201 through Hallowell—an act that would have razed many of Hallowell’s historic downtown buildings. Stubbs, the mayor of the time was one of many Hallowellians, calling themselves The Patriots, who fought to preserve the downtown.

Stubbs is also holding Hallowell’s rare, original broadsheet from 1776 of the Declaration of Independence. Only 250 of these copies of the new Declaration were printed and distributed around the new nation. This rare document was found framed in storage in the Hubbard Free Library in Hallowell. Hallowell’s copy of the Declaration of Independence is now housed at the Maine State Museum.

I chose these mayors to represent the long list of Hallowell Mayors as they were considered to have contributed a lot to the city during their terms in office.

artist, Chris Cart

Mayor George LaPointe was the mayor during the majority of the time the mural was being painted.