Maine Memory Network

Cook house and crew, Maine woods, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

Orchard Cook on his frustration with Maine's separation movement, Washington D.C., 1806

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1806-07-27 Location: Washington; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Cook property, N. Side Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Marianna Cook Use: Summer Dwelling

Cook property, E. side Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Abbie G. Cook Use: Summer Dwelling

Alterations to house at 171 State St. for Mr. Chas. S. Cook, Portland, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1906 Location: Portland Client: Charles S. Cook Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Pennell house, Portland, 1898

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Portland Client: Henry B. Pennell Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

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.

John Martin: Expert Observer - Harris House, Bangor, ca. 1850

"… later known as the Veazie House, was where "Clara cooked her fist meal" and was the birthplace of their first child, Ada."

Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote

"… days later the bill passed on the floor of the House, 193-59.[29] Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure…"

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.

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.