Maine Memory Network

The Shoe Shop, South Berwick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Old Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Berwick Media: Photographic print

Workers at David Cummings & Co. shoe factory, South Berwick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Old Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Berwick Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 13R Kent Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bessie Norton Use: Garage

13 Kent Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Bessie Norton Use: Dwelling - Single family

Alterations to former W.T. Grant Building, Bangor, 1976

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1976 Location: Bangor Client: Anderson & Norton Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Portland Boys Club, Portland, 1914-1973

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1914–1973 Location: Portland; Portland; Portland Client: Portland Boys Club Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
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Lillian Nordica: Farmington Diva

Lillian Norton, known as Nordica, was one of the best known sopranos in America and the world at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. She was a native of Farmington.

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.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"Her parents, Edwin Norton and Amada Allen, were born here, but Amada would be known as a “Stage Mom”, believing in the talents of her daughter…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… in Strong was located on the street that we call Norton Hill today. In winter, trains were warm and were lit with kerosene lanterns."

Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall

As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.