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Item 103952

Airplane crash, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1935 Media: Glass Negative

Item 23122

Plane crash on Callnan Farm, Houlton, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Item 103786

Car broke through ice at Deering Oaks, Portland, 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926-12-26 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Stone house with clipped gables, 974 Sawyer Street, South Portland, ca. 1920

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.

Exhibit

Park Street after the ice storm, Portland, 1886

Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

Exhibit

Reading room at Eastern Fine, Brewer, 1919

Eastern Fine Paper

The paper mill on the Penobscot River in South Brewer, which became known as Eastern Fine Paper Co., began as a sawmill in 1884 and grew over the years as an important part of the economy of the region and a large presence in the landscape. Its closing in 2005 affected more than the men and women who lost their jobs.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca. 1895

Historic Hallowell - Ice; The Ice Storm of 1998; Ice Storm '98

"… and crash, the ice comes down, down with a crash, a crash, a smash. Down with the ice of ’98 and summer heat that crept in late, ice of blue, ice…"

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Captain Samuel Watts' House, Knox Street, Thomaston, Maine 2008

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Captain Samuel Watts House

"… Historical Society Before the financial crash of 1857, shipyard owners were financially secure."

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 4 of 4

"… snows from fields, from dark forests, water crashing to granite rock, spray leaping high in the air, rainbow rising in the spray – a sight to…"