Keywords: wood burning engine
Item 9083
Railroad Bridge, Skowhegan, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1870 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph
Item 10910
New Brunswick and Canada Railroad steam engine, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1880 Location: Houlton; St. John Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album
William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3
"The Callahan boat operator slacked off the engine and a worker threw a rope, which became entangled in the outboard engine of the flat bottom boat…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4
"In January, 1866, the store burned, but a portion was saved by a volunteer bucket brigade from the Mill Stream behind it."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
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
