Keywords: Stock Market
Item 16348
Worumbo Baseball Association Capital Stock Certificate, 1924
Contributed by: Lisbon Historical Society Date: 1924-04-18 Location: Lisbon Falls Media: Paper
Item 105870
Keeping George safe in Market Square, Houlton, 2020
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: 2020-05-20 Location: Houlton Media: Digital image
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad
The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.
Exhibit
Sylvan Site: A Model Development
Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 1 of 13
"A MARKET FOR STARCH Marketing potatoes at starch factories, Houlton, 1895Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum A tradition unique to many…"
Site Page
"… to subsist off the land and to produce for markets, and it would assure that they could pass that prosperity down to future generations."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins
What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.