Keywords: Track
Item 67526
Championship track team, Strong High School, 1930
Contributed by: Mr. & Mrs. Roger Lambert through Strong Historical Society Date: 1930 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 81203
Monson Academy State Championship Track Team, Monson, 1935
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Item 37441
550-566 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co. Use: Track Scales
Item 109769
Plan of Grand Stand for Maine Mile Track Association, South Portland, ca. 1888
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: South Portland Client: Maine Mile Track Association Architect: George M. Coombs
Item 109879
Hotel for Rigby Park and Grand Stand, Cape Elizabeth, 1893-1894
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893–1894 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Maine Mile Track Association Architect: George M. Coombs
Exhibit
History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways
Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.
Exhibit
Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus
Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.
Site Page
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Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - View of Lincoln from Ballard Hill, ca. 1913
"On the extreme right, the railroad tracks can be seen on West Broadway. Left of the tracks, the white house with the big set of barns is what is now…"
Story
2024 Maine History Maker Celebration Event
by Maine Historical Society
Maine Historical Society's 2024 Maine History Maker event, honoring Joan Benoit Samuelson.
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.