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Historical Items

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Item 16184

Island Avenue Extension, Sanford, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Item 16187

Island Avenue Extension, Sanford (photo 2 of 3), ca. 1905

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

Item 16164

10 Island Avenue, Sanford, ca. 1905

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Tax Records

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Item 88089

Long Island Ladies Improvement Association property, S. Side Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Long Island Ladies Improvement Association Use: Tea Room

Item 85630

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110077

Store building at Peaks Island, Portland, 1927-1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1936 Location: Portland Client: Maine Forty Four Corporation Architect: John P. Thomas

Item 116352

Stanbon house on Peaks Island, Portland, 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1913 Location: Portland Client: Sadie E.. Stanbon Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

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

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… in 1885, Bar Harbor’s summer Indian village at the foot of Holland Avenue was home to 250 Wabanakis. In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki..."

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Jesup Memorial Library

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Portland Public Library

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My Maine Stories

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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