Keywords: laying brick
Item 29322
Workers laying track, Kennebunk, 1899
Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1899 Location: Kennebunk Media: Glass Negative
Item 23513
Film of sewer line work, Portland, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: filmstrip, 16mm
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
Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan
Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.
Site Page
"What became the Kennebec claim lay "dormant" until a minor shareholder named Samuel Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744."
Site Page
"… a separate—although poorly defined—region that lay in-between the two, generally referred to as the “Sagadahock Country.” While the charter gave…"
Story
How Mon-Oncle France came to Les-États
by Michael Parent
How Mon-Oncle France came to the United States.
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.