Keywords: Canal
Item 82046
Canal Excavation, Lewiston, ca. 1845
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1845 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 66975
Digging Hollingsworth & Whitney Company canal, Winslow, ca. 1906
Contributed by: Winslow Historical Preservation Committee Date: circa 1906 Location: Winslow Media: Photographic print
Item 99015
33-37 Plum Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Canal National Bank Use: Store - Mission
Item 63321
Assessor's Record, 180-184 Middle Street (rear), Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Canal National Bank Use: Land only
Item 151129
Canal National Bank alterations, Portland, 1945-1951
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1951 Location: Portland Client: Canal Bank Architect: John Howard Stevens John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 150825
Block for the Rumford Falls Trust Co., Rumford, 1922
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922 Location: Rumford; Rumford Client: Rumford Falls Trust Co. Architect: Harry S. Coombs
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
Site Page
Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 1 of 2
"… above and around the Falls, his plans for dams, canal, mills, a power company, and a water district could not be finalized."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - John Frank Stevens
"Stevens took over the Canal project from John F. Wallace in 1905, Wallace had resigned the position mainly because of a fear of yellow fever, which…"
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
