Keywords: small town store
Item 149208
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Media: Tintype
Item 149210
Orange Frost Small and hardware store, Greenwich Village, New York, ca. 1885
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: New York Media: photographic print; ink on paper; graphite on paper
Exhibit
A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Notable Residents
"… block in 1852 on the former site of the Paine store at the corner of Wadsworth and Main Streets, in which the new George's National Bank and…"
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1850 to 1870
"Dry goods stores and specialty shops were in great number and merchants did a brisk business. After an initial drop in census numbers to 3600 in…"
Story
A Lifelong Romance with Retail
by George A Smith
Maine's once plentiful small retail stores.
Story
Norman Sevigny: history of a neighborhood grocery store
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
Growing up in a Franco-American community and working in the family business, Sevigny’s Market
