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Keywords: Newbury

Historical Items

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Item 40296

Josiah Little, Massachusetts, ca. 1830

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1830 Location: Newbury Media: Cloth, canvas, paint, wood

Item 67363

Jane and Susie, Surry, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Surry Media: Photographic print

Item 65067

Emery O. Bonsey, Newbury Neck, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Surry Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Surry Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 65037

15 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frank Feroci Use: Apartments

Item 65038

15 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frank Feroci Use: Apartments

Item 65291

127 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Carmela Albano Use: Store

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151119

Machine Shop for the Thos. Laughlin Co., Portland, 1905-1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905–1920 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Thomas Laughlin Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151730

Cumberland County Courthouse, Portland, 1917-1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1947 Location: Portland; Portland; Portland Client: Cumberland County Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 151703

U.S. Courthouse alterations, Portland, 1930-1931

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930–1931 Location: Portland; Portland Client: United States Treasury Department Architect: J. A. Wetmore

Online Exhibits

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Shaarey Tphiloh, Portland's Orthodox Synagogue

Shaarey Tphiloh was founded in 1904 by immigrants from Eastern Europe. While accommodating to American society, the Orthodox synagogue also has retained many of its traditions.

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Reuben Ruby: Hackman, Activist

Reuben Ruby of Portland operated a hack in the city, using his work to earn a living and to help carry out his activist interests, especially abolition and the Underground Railroad.

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Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation

Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.

Site Pages

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… early settlers came from Cheshire, New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area on fishing and trading…"

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Surry by the Bay - Resources

""The Early History of Newbury Neck": A Talk Given by Professor Albert F. Hill, Surry Historical Society."

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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"… of Surry workmen in Surry village, East Surry and Newbury Neck. During those years, over 50 vessels were built in Surry, including 15 schooners, 5…"

My Maine Stories

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars