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Historical Items Showing 3 of 990 View All
Item 27899
Title: Post Office & Custom House, Bath, ca. 1901
Contributed by: Patten Free Library
Date: circa 1901
Location: Bath
Media: Postcard
Item 10501
Title: William King's Stonehouse Farm, Bath, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Patten Free Library
Date: circa 1920
Location: Bath
Media: Color lithograph on cardstock
Item 22388
Title: Dyer Library, Saco, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Dyer Library Archives / Saco Museum
Date: circa 1914
Location: Saco
Media: Photograph, glass negative
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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.
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Sylvan Site: A Model Development
Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.
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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 Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England, University Press of New England, 1984.)
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea
The history of a town on the northern bank of the St. George River, as told by representatives from Thomaston Historical Society, Thomaston Public Library, Montpelier: the General Henry Knox Museum, and students from Georges Valley High School. Architecture, General Knox, the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the state prison are some of the topics covered.
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Maine Historic Preservation Commission
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