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Keywords: Engines
Historical Items Showing 3 of 1465 View All
Item 16874
Title: Hand-pump fire engine model, Portland, ca. 1850
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1850
Location: Portland
Media: Wood and metal
Item 10453
Title: Bangor and Aroostook Railroad engines 195 and 85
Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society
Date: circa 1935
Location: Oakfield
Media: monochrome photograph
Item 12510
Title: Hand fire engine, Portland
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1897
Location: Portland; Portland
Media: Glass negative
Tax Records Showing 3 of 11 View All
Item 32672
Address: 44 Berkeley Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Sanders Engineering Co.
Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 32686
Address: Bishop Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company
Use: Railroad - Engine House
Item 33135
Address: 38-44 Berkeley Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: Sanders Engineering Co.
Use: Dwelling - Two family
Exhibits Showing 3 of 9 View All
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The Waldo-Hancock Bridge is in the process of being dismantled after over 70 years of service. The Maine State Archives has a number of records related to the history of this famous bridge that are presented in this exhibition.
Exhibit
The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.
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Camden has been home to generations of fishermen, shipbuilders, sailmakers, and others who make their living through the sea. The lives of two Camden sailmakers, who were born nearly a century apart, became entwined at a small house on Limerock Street.
Sites Showing 3 of 4 View All
Site
New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future
A multi-village history of this western Maine town as created by students and teachers from MSAD #74, the New Portland Community Library, and the New Portland Historical Society. Exhibits are divided into sections examining North New Portland Village, East New Portland Village, and West New Portland Village.
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A history of the easternmost town in Maine as created by the Lubec Historical Society, Lubec Consolidated School, Lubec Landmarks, and Lubec Memorial Library. Exhibits include the sardine and herring industries, the Sardine Queen, the West Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the 1911 Centennial Celebration, the S. S. Cumberland Steamer, the gold hoax, an important community quilt, a tragic boating accident, and the blizzard of 1934, among others.
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village
The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.