Maine Memory Network

Samuel Washburn on Chancellorsville, 1862

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1862 Location: City Point Media: Ink on paper

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Samuel Washburn request for command, New York, 1862

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1862-01-28 Location: New York Media: Ink on paper

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118-122 Washburn Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Belle E. Davis Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Assessor's Record, 118-122 Washburn Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Belle E. Davis Use: Garage

The Washburns of Livermore

Members of the Washburn family of Livermore participated in the Civil War in a variety of ways -- from Caroline at the homefront, to Samuel at sea, Elihu, as a Congressman from Illinois, and Israel governor of Maine. The family had considerable influence politically on several fronts.

Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

Historic Clothing Collection - Mid to Late Nineteenth Century

"Ichabod Washburn, also of Massachusetts, developed wire to make sewing machine needles, and spring steel wire for hoop skirts and bustle supports."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861

"… Creighton, Amos Walker, Chapman & Flint, and Washburn. Water Street Houses, Thomaston, Maine c 1870Thomaston Historical Society When…"

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars