Keywords: divided towns
Item 79305
B.F. Thomas Store, East Dixfied, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Dixfield Media: Postcard
Item 79073
East Dixfield Post Office and General Store, Wilton, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Wilton Media: Postcard
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making
Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill
"… 1838 the church underwent a major renovation by dividing the meeting house into two stories – services being held on the upper floor, and the lower…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… begun when Joshua Shaw purchased “The Point” and divided it into lots for sale. This peninsula of slightly higher land, where much of today’s…"
Story
The Cup Code (working at OOB in the 1960s)
by Randy Randall
Teenagers cooking fried food in OOB and the code used identify the product and quantity.
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