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Keywords: Shoreline

Historical Items

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Item 25089

Atlantic Shoreline Railway route, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Kennebunk Media: Postcard

Item 6142

Atlantic Shoreline Junction at Rosemary, Eliot train depot, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1900 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print

Item 6513

Orr's Island in winter, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Harpswell Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 149113

Thomas residence land survey, Mount Desert, 1994-2004

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994–2004 Location: Mount Desert Clients: Joseph B. Thomas, IV; Ethel Thomas Architect: CES, Inc.

Item 111546

Cottage for Francis Cushing on Cushing Island, Portland, ca. 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Location: Portland Client: Francis Cushing Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 111598

David A. Calhoun house, Cape Elizabeth, 1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1904 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: David A. Calhoun Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Belfast During the Civil War: The Home Front

Belfast residents responded to the Civil War by enlisting in large numbers, providing relief from the home front to soldiers, defending Maine's shoreline, and closely following the news from soldiers and from various battles.

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Cape Elizabeth Shipwrecks

The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"The shoreline is now heavily developed with family camps, cottages and homes. The different fish in Porter Lake are the landlocked salmon and lake…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - HISTORY

"The bottom tip of Factory Island and the Saco shoreline are visible on upper left. X Wildlife abounds, and includes deer, fox, and all manner of…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures

"Most of Swan's Island shoreline is rocky, but there are a few lovely white sand beaches. Swan's Islanders on their bikes, ca."

My Maine Stories

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A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin

Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake

Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.

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My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima