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Keywords: Bingham

Historical Items

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Item 23398

Ferry, Bingham, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Bingham Media: Photographic print

Item 103690

Two carpenters, Bingham, ca. 1865

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1865 Location: Bingham Media: Tintype

Item 6585

Railroad Bridge, Bingham, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Bingham Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151325

Wyman Station, Bingham, 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929–1931 Location: Bingham Client: Central Maine Power Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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Item 151361

Augusta Trust Company building, Bingham, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Bingham Client: Augusta Trust Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad

The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.

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Walter Wyman and River Power

Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.

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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Old Canada Road Historical Society

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Settlement

"… for the sum of $300 from the Estate of William Bingham and split the lot North/South between them."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"… land speculator in Maine, who had married Anne Bingham in 1798, whose father had once been the largest landowner in eastern Maine."