Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Leonard Woods letter to John Fogg, 1846

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1846-09-24

Location: Brunswick

Media: Ink on paper

view a full transcription

Title: Pearce Woods, Houlton, 1890

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: 1890

Location: Houlton

Media: monochrome photograph

Title: Leonard Woods, Brunswick, 1881

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: 1881

Location: Brunswick

Media: Ink on paper

Address: 704-706 Congress Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Mary Woods

Use: Apartments & Office

Address: 704-706 Congress Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Mary Woods

Use: Garage

Address: 233-235 Danforth Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Isabelle Woods

Use: Garage

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Friends of Wood Island Light

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.