Keywords: Brooklyn Heights
Item 27189
Brooklyn Heights Hill, Thomaston, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Thomaston Media: Postcard
Item 27832
View from Brooklyn Heights, Thomaston, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.
Exhibit
Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.
Site Page
Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Sports
"… Society Much as the 1950s were all about the Brooklyn Dodger's "boys of summer" the late 1970s and early 1980s on Swan's Island were the "golden…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Atticus: A Fugitive Slave
"… Maine, Kelleran took Atticus to his farm on Brooklyn Heights, where the fugitive reportedly worked for some days."
