Keywords: elm trees
Item 31721
King Elm, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1960 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency
Item 102223
Lafayette Elm, Kennebunk, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Kennebunk Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
Exhibit
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."
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - James Emery cottage, Bucksport, 1867
"… the village and located behind a number of large elms & butternut trees & surrounded by a high buck thorn hedge I observed the building I have…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Intro: pages 0-73
"… Eben Merrill Rebecca Raynes Charles Merrill Elm House, Bangor Thomas Finson Skinner Farm, Brewer Henry K."
