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Historical Items

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Item 103862

The Scow Vixen loaded with waste for disposal near Ram Island, Portland, 1925

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1925-07-27 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Item 13679

Dump rake, Monticello, 2005

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: 2005-05-15 Location: Monticello Media: Photographic print

Item 6137

Slums and dump, Eastern Promenade, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Nuclear Energy for Maine?

Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"City residents often dumped their rubbish and night soil off of the Commercial Street docks into the Fore River."

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Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s

Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2

"A narrow gauge train dumped pulp wood into the mill pond. It was then sent to the wood room to make chips for the pulp mill."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13

"A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more baskets, no more tickets and no more picking potatoes."

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 5 of 13

"… field for pickers  Once the basket is full, it is dumped into a nearby barrel. It takes about four baskets of potatoes to fill a barrel."

My Maine Stories

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My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph

Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.

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Black Lives Matter Protest Portland, Maine
by Joanne Arnold

Documenting the signage at Portland Police Station following the BLM Protests of June 2020

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Eating lower on the food chain
by Avery Yale Kamila

Animal agriculture's ties to climate change