Keywords: Mining
Item 81152
Mendearth Mine, Byron, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Doug Hutchinson through Byron Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Byron Media: Photographic print
Item 29333
Douglass Copper Mine, Blue Hill, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 32765
Office, Foot of Boyd Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Shipper Bros. Coal Mining Co. Style: National Folk Use: Office
Exhibit
Maine's natural resources -- granite, limestone and slate in particular -- along with its excellent ports made it a leader in mining and production of the valuable building materials. Stone work also attracted numerous skilled immigrants.
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House
"… was lived in by Brown Stimpson, a druggist and mining expert. The original ceilings were reported to be 12’ downstairs and 9’ upstairs."
Site Page
"… built ships, fished, and processed fish; mined and cut granite and slate; cut and shipped ice, as well as farmed the state's rocky soils."
Story
Protesters spit on me as a Vietnam Veteran
by Joseph Rocque Jr.
I will never forget the horror of seeing all the protestors greeting my plane returning from Vietnam
Story
My artwork help process memories of Vietnam
by Brian Barry
My Eagle drawing won first place in the Togus Arts and Crafts show, third in the Nationals.
