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Keywords: John Bradford

Historical Items

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Item 19103

Alice Bradford Lane, Houlton, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 27756

The steamer Pilgrim, Biddeford Pool, 1912

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1912-07-24 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 36209

High Water, Kennebec River, 1884

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1884 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 33149

36-38 Bowdoin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frank H Bradford Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 36894

171-175 Clark Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John W Perates Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151343

John B. Curtis Free Public Library, Bradford, 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Bradford Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151511

House for Bradford J. Johnson, Plymouth, NH, 1975

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Plymouth Client: Bradford J. Johnson Architect: John Calvin Stevens II

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Popham Colony

George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.

Exhibit

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Exhibit

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Historic Clothing Collection - Sally Holmes's evening gown, ca. 1824 - Page 1 of 2

"… administration from 1817-1825 when her husband, John Holmes, served as one of Maine's first US senators after Statehood."

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Historic Clothing Collection - 1800-1830 - Page 2 of 2

"Sally Holmes was the wife of Senator John Holmes, one of Maine's first senators. Her satin ball gown features the almost natural level waist of the…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"1960Thomaston Historical Society Captain John Bradford Rider, an artillery officer in the Revolution, built many of the houses for General Knox."