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An early bridge across "The Gut," South Bristol, ca. 1900

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: South Bristol Media: Photographic print

Steel draw bridge over the "Gut," South Bristol, ca. 1926, ca. 1926

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1926 Location: South Bristol Media: Photographic print

Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940 - The Hontvet Horror: The Case of the Smuttynose Murders

"He claimed the blood on his clothes were fish guts, cut his hair, shaved, bought new clothing, and left for Boston by train."

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.

South Bristol Historical Society

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Carleton made this stark record of its gutted stone shell so damaged by the heat of the fire that demolition was the only alternative."

Black Is Beautiful
by Judi Jones

Gut-wrenching fear

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.