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Historical Items

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Item 16823

Trafton's Drug Store, Springvale, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 6535

Babcock & Sharp Drug Store, Lewiston, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Androscoggin Historical Society Date: circa 1917 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 102250

Dana's Sarsaparilla advertisement, Belfast, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Belfast Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 38961

589 Congress Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Devisees of George C. Shaw Co. Use: Store & Bakery

Item 45577

209-211 Danforth Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Frank D McCarthy Use: Stores

Item 36844

82 Clark Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Robert W DeWolfe Use: Dwelling - Two family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111669

H.H. Hay & Sons Lower Store alterations, Portland, 1890-1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1890–1948 Location: Portland Client: H. H. Hay & Sons Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

Item 109268

W.T. Parent Drug Store, Madawaska, 1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949 Location: Madawaska Client: W. T. Parent Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109986

Alterations to 545-549 Congress Street for Simmons & Hammond, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Client: Simmons & Hammond Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan

Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.

Exhibit

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Exhibit

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - Lower Main Street looking north, Lincoln, ca. 1948

"The first store on the left was Bailey's Drug Store. Next was Carney's clothing store and the third building was Grindell's Mens Clothing Store."

Site Page

Bath's Historic Downtown - Merchants' Row

"Lewis E. Wilson owned Wilson's Drug Store on 114 Front Street until he sold it in 1967; the business is still successful today."

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Adventures in Aroostook County - Page 2 of 3

"There was a drug store called Rexol. It served hot peanuts and ice cream. There was a terrible hurricane in the 1970s that knocked down trees."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge

Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars