Keywords: Lime Street
Item 99283
Five Kilns, Rockland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
Item 100121
Gay's Wharf, Rockland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Rockland Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Rockland Media: Stereograph
Item 37324
208-210 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of Elizabeth W. Thomas Use: Factory - Pickle
Item 37323
204-206 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estate of Elizabeth W. Thomas Use: Factory - Pickle
Item 151418
Brewster House Bed & Breakfast, Freeport, 1993-1994
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1993–1994 Location: Freeport Clients: Matt Cartmell; Amy Cartmell Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Carol A. Wilson Architect
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
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.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Lime Works
"… 1805, Knox notes the sale of 3,000 casks of lime and the purchase of almost 3,800 lime casks. Even one of Knox’s ships was named the Quicklime."
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915
"… Society In addition to shipbuilding, the lime quarry industry- now cement production - continues to be a source of employment in the town."
