Keywords: yards
Item 34738
M.C.R.R. Freight Yards, Bangor, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: circa 1905 Location: Bangor Media: Offset Print postcard
Item 5789
Grand Trunk Railroad yards, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Portland Media: Photograph, jpg
Item 70668
Yard Office, Preble Street Yard, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Yard Office
Item 70671
Storage, Preble Street Yard, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Storage
Item 151118
US Naval Receiving Station additions and alterations, Portland, 1940-1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1940–1944 Location: Portland Client: Public Works Office Architect: United States Navy Bureau of Yards and Docks
Item 151877
Malone residence, Northeast Harbor, 2010-2011
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2010–2011 Location: Mount Desert Clients: Rick Malone; Carol Malone Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)
Exhibit
Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825
"Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825 Site of Vose's Wharf, Thomaston, Maine 2009Thomaston Historical Society Philip Hanson arrived from…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Elmer Martin, Bangor, 1865
"… his son Elmer (1860-1870) in the family's back yard in Bangor in August 1865. The illustration is on page 124 of Martin's "Scrap & Sketch Book"…"
Story
2020 Sheltering in Place Random Notes During COVID-19
by Phyllis Merriam, LCSW
Sheltering-in-Place personal experiences in mid-coast Maine (Rockland) during March and April 2020
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.
