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Item 100820

Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1846 Location: Bangor; Brewer; Ellsworth Media: Ink and watercolor on paper

Item 17944

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, ca. 1990

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: Presque Isle Media: Photographic print

Item 103799

Allagash Ferry, 1927

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: 1927-08-20 Location: Allagash Media: Photograph

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150173

Dead River Company service station alterations, Houlton, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Houlton Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150523

House for Mr. Walter E. Dow, Fall River, MA, 1897

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1897 Location: Fall River Client: Walter E. Dow Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects

Item 150204

Eastern Corporation guest house, Brewer, 1945-1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1946 Location: Brewer Client: Eastern Corporation Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Pepperell Manufacturing fire insurance map, 1929

Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

Exhibit

Brunswick-Topsham pedestrian bridge, ca. 1920

The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin

Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.

Exhibit

Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.