Keywords: Cumberland Center
Item 9319
Greely Institute, Cumberland, 1921
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: 1921-07-18 Location: Cumberland Media: Photographic print
Item 31520
Locating the old houses of Cumberland map, by Hope Dilloway, 1989
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: circa 1871 Location: Cumberland Media: Ink and watercolor on paper
Item 36666
67 Center Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cumberland Candy Company Use: Store
Item 52768
109 Center Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Charles J. Bailey et als Use: Store & Tin Shop
Item 151748
McGeachey Hall Mental Health Center, Portland, 1981
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1981 Location: Portland Client: Maine Medical Center Architect: Stevens Architects
Item 151752
Charles A. Dana Education Center, Portland, 1983
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1983 Location: Portland Client: Maine Medical Center Architect: Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland
"By the early 1800s, the house was at the center of a thriving New England city. Since then Portland has expanded, burned, and undergone dramatic…"
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Why Study the History of Drinking?
"Taverns, as much as churches, became the centers of small town activity in the early republic. Generations of later immigrants brought new brewing…"
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"The orchard closest to Cumberland Center was sold to Arvid Terison, and it was renamed the Double T Orchard when Arvid’s son Tom Terison took it over."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… 1794 to Cumberland's meetinghouse in present day Cumberland Center, where Elijah Tuttle and others lived in this corner of ancient North Yarmouth."
Story
ROCK AND ROLL CONCERTS OF SOUTHERN MAINE
by Ford Reiche
A story about Rock and Roll in Maine, 1955-1977
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: Lemuel Moody and the Portland Observatory
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Social Studies
Lemuel Moody and the Portland Observatory Included are interesting facts to share with your students and for students, an interactive slide show available on-line at Maine Memory Network. The "Images" slide show allows students to place historical images of the Observatory in a timeline. Utilizing their observation skills students will place these images in chronological order by looking for changes within the built environment for clues. Also available is the "Maps" slide show, a series of maps from key eras in Portland's history. Students will answer the questions in the slide show to better understand the topography of Portland, the need for an Observatory and the changes in the landscape and the population centers.
