Keywords: Jones' Restaurant
Item 9010
A. F. Dyer Store, Skowhegan, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1885 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 10370
Menu of the Pekin Restaurant, Bangor, ca. 1924
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1924 Location: Bangor; Bangor; Bangor Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual
"… can be viewed in barrooms, taverns, hotels, restaurants, and museums throughout the country. It is probably safe to say that in the fifty years…"
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In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation
"Captain Harry M. Jones Pilot Harry M. Jones, WWI flight instructor, had a hangar and operated a small airport at Old Orchard Beach, which served as…"
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Lincoln, Maine - Lincoln House Hotel
"The owners were William P. Leighton, Peleg T. Jones, H.G. Coburn, the Libby brothers, H.H. Fiske, the Woods brothers, Samuel H."
Story
Spiros Droggitis: From Biddeford to Washington DC and back
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A Greek family's impact: from the iconic Wonderbar Restaurant to Washington DC
