Keywords: Sandy Stream
Item 4231
Sandy River railroad trestle, Strong, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Strong Media: Photographic print
Item 4232
Suspension bridge, North New Portland, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: North New Portland Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye
The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.
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"They returned to Topsham a different way this time by following the Sandy to the Kennebec River and down to Merrymeeting Bay to their homes."
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"… and built the first bridge that crossed the Sandy River. The bridge was made of wood and lasted 11 years before being washed away."
