Keywords: Member of Congress
Item 111783
Maine Charitable Mechanic Association and Congress Street, Portland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 111814
Congress Street and Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Mechanics' Hall Date: circa 1870 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NFBPWC) held their seventh annual convention in Portland during July 12 to July 18, 1925. Over 2,000 working women from around the country visited the city.
Exhibit
Members of the Washburn family of Livermore participated in the Civil War in a variety of ways -- from Caroline at the homefront, to Samuel at sea, Elihu, as a Congressman from Illinois, and Israel governor of Maine. The family had considerable influence politically on several fronts.
Site Page
"By 1922, the club had 655 members and was the largest in the country in proportion to its city's population (about 70,000)."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War
"As they turned the corner onto Congress Street, they were met by “a cavalcade of mounted citizens, a detachment of the Police and a battalion of the…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
