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Keywords: Chicken House

Historical Items

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Item 14431

Good Will boy, Fairfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1920 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 135784

Pantry, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1985 Location: Gardiner Media: photographic print

Item 25547

Menu, Poland Spring resort, 1884

Contributed by: Poland Spring Preservation Society Date: 1884 Location: Poland Spring Media: Ink on paper

Tax Records

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Item 54258

Assessor's Record, 142-144 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Nettie E. Hanscom Use: Chicken Coop

Item 55859

Assessor's Record, 1286 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Hattie A. Thompson Use: Chicken Coop

Item 63121

Assessor's Record, 8-12 Middle Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Zesel Agger Use: Chicken Coop

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Exhibit

The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels

Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.

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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 Pages

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Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Marion Sanborn

"… never had to… Marion: And chickens, we had the chicken house when they first came, because we don’t have heating like now, they’d have to stay in…"

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Farm Life

"Her mother tended the chickens and they ate the eggs for breakfast. They also sold many of the eggs. They had twenty-five to thirty chickens."

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Moving to Maine: There to Here - Page 3 of 3

"My parents raised chickens for money and for meat. They kept them in the house; free to wander where they wanted."

My Maine Stories

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Story

How Belfast was the Chicken Capital of the Northeast
by Ralph Chavis

My memories of spending time in Belfast as a child when my father worked in the chicken industry.

Story

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down