Search Results

Keywords: Fence making

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 7 Showing 3 of 7

Item 108703

Chester Nickerson making snow fence, Hodgdon, 1950

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1950-08-23 Location: Hodgdon Media: Photographic print

Item 100595

Boom floating over Goose Rocks Passage, Westport Island, 1957

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1957-05-16 Location: Westport Island; MacMahan Island Media: Photographic print

Item 9843

View of Long Lake, St. Agathe, ca. 1908

Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 6 Showing 3 of 6

Exhibit

A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

Exhibit

Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Exhibit

Fallen Heroes: Those Who Gave Their Lives: World War II

At least twenty-three Jewish men from Maine died in the military during World War II. Photographs and other memorabilia are available for fewer than half of them. Read more about them.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 19 Showing 3 of 19

Site Page

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"… and shingles needed for boats, dwellings, barns, fences, and barrels. They cut hay in the salt marshes and turned ancient forest trails into paths…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"Behind the white picket fence, you can see the Measuring Rock from the road. Stephen Titcomb lived in a house that was approximately on the same lot…"

Site Page

John Martin: Expert Observer - Lewiston Journal article on Katahdin Iron Works

"It describes the process of making pig iron and gives some background about the Kathadin Iron Charcoal Co. and the area where it was located."

My Maine Stories

View All Showing 2 of 4 Showing 3 of 4

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin

Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR