Maine Memory Network

Women in bathing costume, 1915

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1915 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

1915 Finley Robertson Porter, photographed at Seal Cove Auto Museum, ca. 2005

Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1915 Location: Seal Cove Media: Metal and Rubber

509 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Joseph R. Rollins et als Use: Club House

Cottage at Prout's Neck, 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

House for L. B. Costello, Lewiston, 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Location: Lewiston Client: L. B. Costello Architect: Harry S. Coombs

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

Good Will-Hinckley: Building a Landscape

The landscape at the Good Will-Hinckley campus in Fairfield was designed to help educate and influence the orphans and other needy children at the school and home.

Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2

"Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 Contributed by Lincoln Historical Society Description The conveyor in the foreground was used to ship pulp wood…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"1870 to 1915 Watts Block, Thomaston, 1890Thomaston Historical Society Captain Watts constructed and presented the Watts Block, a brick…"

Alice Bertrand shares highlights from her 100+ years
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

What is it like to live through all the events that have occurred in the past 100+ years?

The Year We Had Two Thanksgiving Days
by John Brooks Howard

The story is about a 1939 trip to Grand Lake Stream and Thanksgiving with Geo W MacArthur and family