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Historical Items

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Item 100996

Hauling salvage logs, Bridgton, 1939

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Bridgton Media: Photographic print

Item 100994

Oxen hauling salvage logs, Bridgton, 1939

Contributed by: National Archives at Boston Date: 1939 Location: Bridgton Media: Photographic print

Item 12857

Salvage Shop, Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 96709

Verrill Street Lot 216, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Sophia Drummond

Online Exhibits

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Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

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The Devil and the Wilderness

Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.

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Harry Lyon: An Old Sea Dog Takes to the Air

Through a chance meeting, Harry Lyon of Paris Hill became the navigator on the 1928 flight of the Southern Cross, the first trans-Pacific flight. His skill as a navigator, despite his lack of experience, was a key factor on the flight's success.

Site Pages

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"A Portland salvage company removed as much cargo and salvageable parts as possible, but local residents scavenged much of the Middleton’s cargo of…"

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Patten Lumbermen's Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - "Fly Rod" Crosby - Page 2 of 3

"Some remnants were salvaged and are on display at the Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad Museum in Phillips."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.