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Keywords: "Maine Law"

Historical Items

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Item 20597

Neal Dow house, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 39927

Neal Dow house, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Item 29191

Dr. John Hubbard Jr., Hallowell, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: circa 1850 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151134

Children's Hospital, Portland, 1909-1966

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1966 Location: Portland Clients: Children's Hospital; Salvation Army; University of Maine Law Sch Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Online Exhibits

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law

"1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law Temperance Watchman Club No. 1 banner, ca. 1848Maine Historical Society An Era of Reform By 1820…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Neal Dow

"… Dow Back to: 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law X Colonel Neal Dow, ca. 1865 Published by John Russell Hand-colored lithograph…"

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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… it to "Irish men & women in open defiance of the Maine law." He further charged that Hayford provided housing for "bad women." View additional…"

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Historic Hallowell - Dr. John Hubbard

"… most notable act as Governor was to sign the "Maine Law"-An Act for the Suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops-the state's first…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"… Memorial Library Legal Settlement Maine law in 1821 spelled out the conditions of legal settlement for its residents."

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars