Maine Memory Network

High water, Skowhegan, 1923

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1923 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

High water, Skowhegan, 1923

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1923 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 801 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mark Lapierre Style: Utilitarian Use: Garage

Lane property, W. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Ida M. Lane Use: Summer Dwelling

Masonic Temple Millinocket, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Millinocket Client: Freemasons Architect: Harry S. Coombs

The Portland Club heating plans, Portland, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923 Location: Portland Client: The Portland Club Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

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.

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Lincoln, Maine - Methodist Church, Lincoln, ca. 1925

"… of the Lincoln Theatre (at right), built in 1923 to replace the Odd Fellows Hall after it burned in 1922, suggests that this photo was taken around…"

Ted Truman (Throumoulos): A treasure trove of stories
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A son of Greek immigrants’ insight into his entrepreneurial family, culture and life experiences

Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous

Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler