Maine Memory Network

Cover of first issue of Farmstead Magazine, 1974

Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: 1974 Location: Blue Hill Media: Ink on paper

The Farmstead in East Sullivan, 1932

Contributed by: Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society Date: 1932 Location: Sullivan Media: Photographic print

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Salmon Brook Historical Society

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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony

"… in the labor required to clear roads and create a farmstead. It is this land that would later become the town of New Sweden."