Maine Memory Network

Dr. Lorenzo Norton's eye glasses, East Baldwin, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: East Baldwin Media: Glass; leather; gold
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Disappearing gun at Fort Williams, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1917

Can you identify either man in this photograph?

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960

"Outbuildings disappeared, the fence and surrounding trees and other plantings changed. Gradually, the house was no longer in a rural setting."

Northern Threads: Penobscot mocassins

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part I," about telling stories through Indigenous clothing, featuring an essay by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune (Penobscot.)

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Corn Canning Industry

"… established in 1929 was the last cannery to disappear from Farmington’s landscape in 1969. The plant was located where present day McDonald’s…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… Europeans, only the southwestern tribes would disappear altogether--driven from their ancestral lands to disappear among the tribal bands to the…"

Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker

Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s

Quinton "Skip" Wilson: different aspects of "standing out"
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

Recollections of life as Biddeford's only student of color during the 1960-70s