Keywords: Kittery Point
Item 7755
Kittery Navy Yard, Kittery, 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905-07-22 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Postcard
Item 7759
Henderson's Point prior to excavation, Kittery, 1905
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Kittery; Portsmouth Media: Postcard
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History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
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Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… 1653, the King’s Highway reached from Portland to Kittery and followed Scarborough’s coastline. At Scarborough, the highway began at the Spurwink…"
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"In 1739 the laying out of a public highway from Falmouth through North Yarmouth to Brunswick was ordered. At this point North Yarmouth was becoming a…"
