Keywords: steam plant
Item 74741
Farmingdale steam station, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Farmingdale Media: Photographic print
Item 74740
W.F. Wyman steam station, Yarmouth, 1963
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1963 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print
Item 151324
Wiscasset Steam Power Station, Wiscasset, 1941
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940–1941 Location: Wiscasset Client: Central Maine Power Company Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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John Martin: Expert Observer - First Penobscot Bridge, Bangor, ca. 1846
"… recollection, the First Penobscot Bridge from Steam Boat wharf in Bangor. He labeled the toll house, Skinner's Store, and the Draw."
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John Martin: Expert Observer - Revenue gunboat "Mahoning," Bangor, 1864
"… & sketched her from the Brick Wharf oposite Steam Boat wharf. I then went on board & examined her machinery guns & work generally which was all…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
