Keywords: Cumberland Street
Item 31016
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Cumberland Media: Stereograph
Item 29978
Greely Institute, Main Street, Cumberland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Cumberland Media: Photographic print
Item 42140
439-441 Cumberland Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Elizabeth M Hay Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 42826
311 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Sofie Laham Use: Garage
Item 116606
Cumberland County Courthouse, Portland, 1917-1947
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1947 Location: Portland; Portland; Portland Client: Cumberland County Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 110185
Cumberland Club alterations, Portland, 1906-1929
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1906–1929 Location: Portland Client: Cumberland Club Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement
"… leader of the Gospel Temperance Mission, and Cumberland County Sheriff from 1900 to 1902. His photographic likeness applied to the front of this…"
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960
"… of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Congress Street, as Back Street came to be called, from 1786 to around 1960."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits
"Exhibits "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland Brothers of the Civil War Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a…"
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
""Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland Main Street, Walnut Hill, North Yarmouth, 1910North Yarmouth Historical Society Main…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: "My Lost Youth" - Longfellow's Portland, Then and Now
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow loved his boyhood home of Portland, Maine. Born on Fore Street, the family moved to his maternal grandparents' home on Congress Street when Henry was eight months old. While he would go on to Bowdoin College and travel extensively abroad, ultimately living most of his adult years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he never forgot his beloved Portland.
Years after his childhood, in 1855, he wrote "My Lost Youth" about his undiminished love for and memories of growing up in Portland. This exhibit, using the poem as its focus, will present the Portland of Longfellow's boyhood. In many cases the old photos will be followed by contemporary images of what that site looked like 2004.
Following the exhibit of 68 slides are five suggested lessons that can be adapted for any grade level, 3–12.
