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Historical Items

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Item 15857

Springvale Depot Freight Wagon before 1908

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 21694

Atlantic Shore Line Cars Loaded With Coal, Springvale, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 50684

Atlantic Shore Line Locomotive #100, Sanford, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1930 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151831

Burden residence, Northeast Harbor, 1947-1998

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947–1998 Location: Mount Desert Client: Jean Burden Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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Trolley Travel

Trolleys were the cleanest and most efficient means of mass transit Maine has ever known.

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Moosehead Steamboats

After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.

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History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways

Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.

Site Pages

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - -Across the Sea- a history through transportation

"… has changed since people first set foot on the shores of Swan's Island, but there is a community spirit that survives, as constant as the tides."

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Historic Hallowell - News Article by Emily Markham

"The Kennebec River waters have taken over the shore lines and even some houses have been considered ruins in what is now left of the shores of…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 2 of 4

"… was a shed for interchange with the Atlantic Shore Railroad to York County points.(5) Rising operating costs and increasing use of automobiles…"

My Maine Stories

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Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall

We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.

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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

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Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.