Maine Memory Network

Poster for Peaks Playhouse musical events, Portland, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1925 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Opposite 'Punkin' Knob Peaks Island, ca. 1950

Courtesy of Jim Kuhn, an individual partner Date: circa 1950 Location: Peaks Island Media: Photographic postcard

Peaks Island Methodist Church Trustees property, E. Side D Street, Lot 18, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Peaks Island Methodist Church Trustees Use: Parsonage

Varney property, City Point Road, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: William H. Varney Use: Dwelling

Store building at Peaks Island, Portland, 1927-1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1936 Location: Portland Client: Maine Forty Four Corporation Architect: John P. Thomas

Stanbon house on Peaks Island, Portland, 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Portland Client: Sadie E.. Stanbon Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Navy Firefighting School, Little Chebeague Island

Little Chebeague Island in Casco Bay was home to recreational facilities and a firefighting school for WWII sailors. The school was part of a Navy effort to have non-firefighting personnel knowledgeable in dealing with shipboard fires.

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce

"By century's end the total was about 370. At its peak in the 1850s, shipping and shipbuilding was the island's biggest industry."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Twentieth-Century Community Life

"… groups, such as the Grange, which reached its peak in the early part of the century, created an enlarged social environment for women and for men."

Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield

Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island

Bunkers and Lodges
by Bob Martin & Emily Holdtman Martin

Growing up in Maine, summering in Maine, and how it's changed.