Maine Memory Network

Filling in Back Cove, Portland, part 2, 1837-2003

Contributed by: City of Portland Dept. of Public Works Date: 1837–2003 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

Slums and dump, Eastern Promenade, 1908

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

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.

CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections

Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.

Surry by the Bay - Early Twentieth Century

"In those days, there was no municipal landfill. Instead homeowners dumped rubbish in back of their houses."

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