Maine Memory Network

Parade leaving Market Square, Houlton, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

C.J. Herrick Fish Market, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Great Harbor Maritime Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print

30 Market Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Morris Hugo Use: Dwelling & Store

32 Market Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Morris Hugo Use: Dwelling & Machine Shop

David A. Calhoun house, Cape Elizabeth, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: David A. Calhoun Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Student Exhibit: The Great By-Pass

The debate over a proposed bridge and bypass in Skowhegan in 2005.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Market Hall, Bangor, 1846

"Market Hall, Bangor, 1846 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description John Martin (1823-1904) of Bangor…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… Olde Town & Millford Switch and crossing on Market Street." He drew the house as it looked before Samuel Veazie added a shed and made other…"

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins

What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.