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Historical Items

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Item 16978

Rock Potatoes, Houlton area, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Houlton Media: Rocks

Item 35258

Fortunes Rocks, Biddeford, ca. 1908

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1908 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 23598

Fortunes Rocks, ca. 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 85899

Kimball property, E. side Island Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Alice Kimball Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 83057

Smith property, N. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Lillian A. Smith Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 89311

Assessor's Record, Jewett property, Lots 7 & 8, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Geneva R. Jewett Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109924

Preliminary Plan for Rock Garden, Augusta, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Augusta Client: Walter S. Wyman Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Item 109949

Rock Garden for Deering Oaks, Detail of Planning, Portland, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: unknown

Item 116395

Etherington cottage, Biddeford, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Biddeford Client: W. F. Etherington Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Wreck of the Annie C. Maguire, December 24, 1886

Cape Elizabeth Shipwrecks

The rocky coastline of Cape Elizabeth has sent many vessels to their watery graves.

Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Benedict Arnold's March Through Skowhegan

Benedict Arnold arrived in Skowhegan on October 4th, 1775, and it was here that Arnold received his first offer of help from the colonists. Joseph Weston and his sons helped Benedict Arnold and his army cross over the Skowhegan Falls, but Joseph later got a severe cold from exposure and died of a fever on Oct.16th. His sons went back to the family home along the Kennebec for they were the first family to settle in Old Canaan or what is now Skowhegan.

Exhibit

Rockefeller Drive, Mt. Desert Island, ca. 1935

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.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"Measuring Rock The Measuring Rock Story In 1776, at the encouragement of Thomas Wilson, Stephen Titcomb and four other residents of Topsham, Maine…"

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Dave Glovsky and Louis Armstrong, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1955

Music in Maine - Rock and Roll, Punk, and Elvis

"Often front page news. In the early days of rock and roll, southern Maine got way more than its share of major performers."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"… Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill Franklin County Agricultural Fair Lowell's General Store Measuring Rock Meeting House Park North Church"