Beebe Lime pit

Beebe Plain is a village of the Quebec located in the Ville of Stanstead in the administrative area of the Estrie at the border between the Canada and the the United States. This border is marked by the layout of the avenue Canusa (Canada the USA). Beebe Lime pit, as a divided village, is located partially at the county of Orleans to the Vermont.

Beebe Plain is a small village established towards 1789 per Mr. Zeba Beebe of the Connecticut and located completely literally on the Frontière Quebec - Vermont at 45.01°N 72.15°W, divided in the center between the canton of Stanstead, Quebec and the county of Orleans, Vermont.

It belongs to a group of frontier small villages which include Rock Island/Derby Line and Stanstead and is located close to the lake Memphrémagog, a little in the west of the Autoroute 55 (Interstate-91 American) between Newport (Vermont) and Magog.

The village is cut into two by the international border. The local legend claims that the determination of the layout of the Frontière, was entrusted to a group of Arpenteur S quite drunk, which decided to place the border in full heart of the village at length of what is now the street CanUSA. (nominally with 45.00°N)

Beebe shelters 975 Canadians (1991) and also a small number of Americans. The villages of Rock'n'roll Island and Beebe Plain belong to Stanstead (population 3000) since to fusion of the three villages in 1995.

Granite of Beebe

The granite of Beebe (or “gray granite of Stanstead”) is famous for its use in the architectural design. The production of the granite of the area, is undoubtedly, more local big industry; most of the stone being employed in the construction of the tomb stones, the mausoleums and the memorials.

An old railway which had connected Magog to Beebe before crossing the border of the United States abandoned and was closed down by the the Canadian Pacific in 1989 - 1991; the old right-of-way railway remains open for recreation although the quality of the path varies between good and rough/rock.

Island rock'n'roll/Line Derby

Rock'n'roll Island/Derby Line is celebrated because of the Free Bibliothèque and Opera Haskell, built deliberately on the border international and opened in 1904. The original owners were a couple binational; Mr. Carlos F. Haskell, an American business man of Line Derby, VT (owner of some sawmills) and Mrs. Haskell, Canadian citizen. The intention was that people on the two sides of the Frontière can make use of it. The building is now known like indexed historic site.

In some places, the international border divides the houses so that the meals prepared in a country are eaten in the other.

A whole factory of machine tool, formerly exploited by Butterfield division of Litton, was also divided into two by the border.

Stanstead in Quebec

Stanstead is a village mainly of loyal supporter root (with the crown of the British empire). It was established in 1796 by Johnson Taplin. One still prints the Newspaper of Stanstead there, a weekly newspaper of English language founded in 1845.

External bonds

MRC Memphrémagog
Tourism Memphrémagog
Information - cities and villages - Cantons of the East
Association of the most beautiful villages, Quebec

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