Keywords: The Ovens
Item 25010
The Ovens, Bar Harbor, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 25009
The Ovens at Salisbury Cove, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Jesup Memorial Library Date: circa 1910 Media: Postcard
Exhibit
The Life and Legacy of the George Tate Family
Captain George Tate, mast agent for the King of England from 1751 to the Revolutionary War, and his descendants helped shape the development of Portland (first known as Falmouth) through activities such as commerce, shipping, and real estate.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Canning Sardines in Lubec: Technology, the Syndicate and Labor
"However, the cans were likely to be the extruded type introduced by American Can a few years before."
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Skyline Farm - Making and Preserving History
"There was always something good coming out of the oven to go with your hot chocolate.” Carl Semmes Securing Trusses on Skyline Riding Arena X…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
