Keywords: Purchase
Item 111719
Kennebec Purchase Deed, October 27, 1661
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1661-10-27 Media: Ink on vellum
Item 1282
Purchase of Indian corn for troops in Camden, 1780
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1780 Location: Camden Media: Ink on paper
Item 86039
286-288 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Sacknoff Brothers Use: Apartments
Item 111319
Maine Building for Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1903–1904 Location: St. Louis Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 116616
Miss Lena McArthur house, Biddeford, 1922-1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–1925 Location: Biddeford Client: Lena G. McArthur Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
In 1921, Guy Gannett purchased two competing Portland newspapers, merging them under the Portland Press Herald title. He followed in 1925 with the purchase the Portland Evening Express, which allowed him to combine two passions: photography and aviation.
Exhibit
Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
Site Page
"Copy, deed from Blaney to Purchase, page 5 of 5, with copies of six Indian deeds to Wharton, page 1 of 4."
Site Page
"… The Plymouth Company, also known as the Kennebeck Purchase Company, Kennebec Proprietors, or The Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase from the…"
Story
Josiah Parsons Home Westport Island Maine
by Deborah G. Greenleaf
Westport Island historical information
Story
Stories from Eastport
by Ruth McInnis
My memories of growing up in Eastport, WWII, camping, and history on the border
Lesson Plan
Longfellow Studies: The Elms - Stephen Longfellow's Gorham Farm
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
On April 3, 1761 Stephen Longfellow II signed the deed for the first 100 acre purchase of land that he would own in Gorham, Maine. His son Stephen III (Judge Longfellow) would build a home on that property which still stands to this day. Judge Longfellow would become one of the most prominent citizens in Gorhams history and one of the earliest influences on his grandson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work as a poet.
This exhibit examines why the Longfellows arrived in Gorham, Judge Longfellow's role in the history of the town, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's vacations in the country which may have influenced his greatest work, and the remains of the Longfellow estate still standing in Gorham today.