Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Elm Street, Topsham, 1887

Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society

Date: 1887-04-02

Location: Topsham

Media: Print, Photograph

Title: Skowhegan Free Public Library and Elm Street, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House

Date: circa 1940

Location: Skowhegan

Media: Black & White print

Title: Elm Street, Thomaston, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society

Date: circa 1870

Location: Thomaston

Media: Black and White Photograph

Address: 83 Elm Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Harry Rakofsky

Use: Garage

Address: 78 Elm Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Albert Dingley

Use: Storage

Address: 32 Elm Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: First Lutheran Church of Portland

Use: Land only

A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

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.