Keywords: Portland Water Company
Item 81553
Portland Water District Casco Street office, 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 81550
Portland Water District Casco Street Office, ca. 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 83641
45 Water Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Burnham and Morrill Company Use: Factory
Item 83646
45 Water Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Burnham and Morrill Company Use: Chicken Feed Manufactory
Item 151298
Plans for Warehouse Building, Portland, 1917-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1917–1946
Location: Portland
Client: Burnham and Morrill Co.
Architect: John Howard Stevens; John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
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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.
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Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
"The name "New" Portland was thus due to its roots to the original Portland. People came to live there in 1783, but the town was officially…"
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.
Story
My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne
Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima
