Keywords: early landowners
Item 68913
Scarborough landowners, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Scarborough Media: Ink on paper
Item 102071
Map of early Greene, Lewiston and Sabattus, ca. 1790
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Location: Sabattus; Greene Media: Ink on vellum
Item 85120
Ray property, Natick Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Clyde Ray Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 65231
77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
Exhibit
The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Early Settlements
"… in winter on roads built and maintained by each landowner who built permanent gates across their part of the road to keep farm animals from…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740
"… various offers were often made to entice future landowners. A blockhouse or fort was built to ensure success of the settlement and to provide for…"
Story
From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm
The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History
