Keywords: Deering Oaks
Item 148247
Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-09-05 Location: Portland Media: Photographic Print
Item 148252
Bridge, Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-08-13 Location: Portland Media: Photographic Print
Item 156402
Deering Oaks Concession Building, Portland, 1929-1954
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1929–1954
Location: Portland
Client: Portland Parks Commision
Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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Item 150884
Rock Garden for Deering Oaks, Detail of Planning, Portland, 1935
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: unknown
Exhibit
Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
"… by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite. The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied nations…"
Site Page
Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson
"… Evergreen Cemetery (1902), the Castle in Deering Oaks (1894), the Armory on Milk Street (1895), the Masonic Temple on Congress Street (1912), the…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
