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Item 11675
Society of the Cincinnati chocolate pot, Thomaston, ca. 1790
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: circa 1790 Location: Thomaston Media: porcelain
Item 109059
Elwell Store and Post Office, Northport, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Northport Media: Glass Plate Negative
Exhibit
Jameson & Wotton Wharf, Friendship
Since 1897, the Jameson & Wotton Wharf in Friendship has been an important addition to the community on Muscongus Bay. The wharf, which is accessible at all tides, was a steamboat stop for many years, as well as important to the lobster business.
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.
Site Page
Rumford Area Historical Society
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"… usually sitting in his rocking chair by the big pot-bellied stove in the middle of the floor and didn’t move around very fast.” Reynolds also…"
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
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
