Keywords: Chicago World Fair
Item 25525
Maine State Building, Poland Spring, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Poland Spring Preservation Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Poland Spring Media: Photographic print
Item 19480
Houlton Airport history, ca. 1937
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1937 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment
Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.
Exhibit
"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan..." Waterville, 1911
Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Bangor Commercial article on World's Fair contest
"… a contest in 1893, offering trips to the World's Fair -- the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Arthur R. Gould
"In 1926, a group of Chicago business men made a bid to buy the power company. Gould set the price at $2,000,000, or $400 per share."
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.