Keywords: Stone walls
Item 102372
Stone wall, Kingfield, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Lantern slide
Item 72370
Baird's Quarry with crane, Swan's Island, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Swan's Island Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Swan's Island Media: Photographic print
Item 110501
Skylands, Mount Desert, 1922-2000
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–2000 Location: Mount Desert Client: Martha Stewart Architect: Landscape Design Associates
Item 111594
Cape Cottage Park, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1924–1926 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Cape Cottage Park Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
Exhibit
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 Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."
Story
If You Knew My Story
by Anonymous (Maine State Prison)
A story about incarceration in Maine
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down