Keywords: Poor
Item 34819
City Farm (Poor Farm), Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910 Location: Biddeford; Biddeford Media: Postcard
Item 51582
Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1924 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print
Item 39896
846-848 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Alfred Poors Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 37660
Assessor's Record, 187 Concord Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Sadie Poore Use: Garage
Item 150917
House for Mr. Chas. O. Poor, Concord St., Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Client: Charles O. Poor Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Item 150920
House for Miss Ruth E.. Locke, Longfellow St., Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Client: Ruth E. Locke Architect: Charles O. Poor; Poor & Thomas
Exhibit
J.A. Poor and the Portland-Montreal Connection
John A. Poor's determination in 1845 to bring rail service to Maine and to make Portland the winter port for Montreal, along with the steel foundry he started to build locomotives and many other products, helped boost the economy of Portland the state.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: A Friend in Need!
Sometime in the 1920s a 700 hundred pound moose fell through the ice, likely between Norridgewock and Skowhegan. She was rescued by a game warden and another man. Here is the story.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor
"Each municipality had its Overseers of the Poor board, and the board was responsible for relieving and supporting all poor and indigent persons…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Poor Farm
"Poor Farm City "Poor" Farm, Poor Farm Road, Hallowell, 1879Courtesy of Sumner A. Webber, Sr., an individual partner In a Mayor's Address from…"
Story
Rachel Tourigny: Richness of growing up in a big, "poor" family
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
A most vivid and heartwarming account of life during a simpler time
Story
One View
by Karen Jelenfy
My life as an artist in Maine.
