Keywords: State of Emergency
Item 105856
Encouraging message on marquee of State Theater, Portland, 2020
Courtesy of an individual partner Date: 2020-03-16 Location: Portland Media: Digital image
Item 100066
Vintage Tripp teardrop emergency light, Waldoboro, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Waldoboro Fire Department Date: circa 1960 Location: Waldoboro Media: Plastic, metal
Item 151546
Churchill House on State St., Portland, 1928-1934
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928–1934 Location: Portland Client: Major Gist. Blair Architect: Binford & Wadsworth
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
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Maine's Road to Statehood - Turn of the Century to the War of 1812
"By 1807, the idea of separation was again emerging with force. This time, however, it came from the top down."
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
Story
Florence Ahlquist Link's WWII service in the WAVES
by Earlene Ahlquist Chadbourne
Florence Ahlquist, age 20, was trained to repair the new aeronautical cameras by the US Navy in WWII
