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Item 57793

Blue Ledge on the Sandy River, Strong, ca. 1905

Blue Ledge on the Sandy River, Strong, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Strong Media: Glass Negative

Item 4232

Suspension bridge, North New Portland, ca. 1870

Suspension bridge, North New Portland, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: North New Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 4231

Sandy River railroad trestle, Strong, ca. 1890

Sandy River railroad trestle, Strong, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Noon Lunch, Eagle Lake, 1911

Umbazooksus & Beyond

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

Music in Maine - Community Music

Music in Maine - Community Music

"Edward “Sandy” Ives (1925-2009) started the Northeast Folklore Society in 1959 at the University of Maine in Orono."

Exhibit

Henry Thurston Clark trunk, ca. 1872

Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

Site Pages

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Welcome to Strong sign, Strong, ca. 1950

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."

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Fannie Brackley and doe, ca. 1937

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 3 of 3

"1910 Today one can still hitch ride on the Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad at their museum in downtown Phillips."

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Wooden pantry box of T. L. Richardson, Strong, ca. 1870

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Cheese Factory

"… farmers, and the farmers named the factory the Sandy River Cheese Company. The cost of purchasing the land and building the factory was $1,656.00."