Keywords: Sandy River
Item 57793
Blue Ledge on the Sandy River, Strong, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative
Item 4231
Sandy River railroad trestle, Strong, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape
The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.
Site Page
"They returned to Topsham a different way this time by following the Sandy to the Kennebec River and down to Merrymeeting Bay to their homes."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Welcome to Strong
"The 1790 census record lists “Sandy River, Middle Twp.” Soon it became known as Readstown, for the settlement proprietor, William Read."