Keywords: Old Home Days, 1902 (Portland, Me.)
Item 12496
Old Home Day Parade, Portland, 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"Mary Longfellow (1816-1902) Mary Longfellow, Portland, 1836Maine Historical Society James Greenleaf (1814-1865) James L. Greenleaf, ca."
Site Page
"… or Memories of a Lifetime written in March of 1902, some of the first guests of Harbor Cottage included artists George Hollingsworth (1813-1882) of…"
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4
"… with frequent and convenient rail service to Portland, Old Orchard Beach and Saco following what is now Route 1.(1) Trolley at Dunstan…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
