Keywords: City of Brewer
Item 9528
J.S. Ayer Store, Brewer, ca. 1900
Contributed by: City of Brewer Date: circa 1900 Location: Brewer Media: Photographic print
Item 14636
First Congregational Church, City Hall, Brewer, ca. 1910
Contributed by: City of Brewer Date: circa 1910 Location: Brewer Media: Postcard
Item 35056
11 Brewer Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Leon I Burbank
Item 35061
25 Brewer Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Carrie U Hayward Use: Dwelling - Two family
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Brewer is the gateway to coastal communities and Acadia National Park. The city along with Bangor also serves as a trading and distribution center for the coastal areas and towns and cities to the north with the total region having a population of approximately 250,000 people.
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Expansion
"In 1952 the most recent Stearns mill was built on the original site of the old mill in East Hampden where the business remains."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine