If you can identify where this photo was taken, contact us at bmail@sunjournal.com or call 689-2896 and leave a voicemail with your answer, your name, town, and phone number. Correct entries will be put into a drawing for a $20 gift card, courtesy of Hannaford Supermarkets. Find the Mystery Photo online at https://preprod.sunjournal.com/tag/mystery-photo/

This week’s winner solved two mysteries. She not only knew where last week’s Mystery Photo was taken, but also solved a different mystery many have wondered about. Tanya Schaub lives a short distance from the sculpture shown in last week’s photo, which is erected on Crash Road in Livermore near the town line in Jay. So she had no problem identifying where the photo was taken. However, many people, including the photographer who took the photo, incorrectly thought Crash Road got its name from car crashes that occurred because of the road’s sharp turns. When we called Schaub to tell her she won, she asked if we knew the real reason the road is named Crash Road. She said she worked at the paper mill in Jay for a number of years and knew the story behind the name and why it is a state road, not a town road. “Back in the ’60s when Otis (the former mill in town) wanted to build a bigger plant, they could not get the equipment over the bridge in town. The paper company said they would build their mill in Jay if separate roads in Livermore and Jay could be connected. They got the (Maine) House and Senate to (approve) a ‘crash bill’ to fund building the road. They did it in one day so they called it a ‘crash bill’ and named the road after it,” Schaub said. She will receive a $20 gift card from Hannaford and our thanks for adding to our knowledge of local history.

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