Keywords: United States Postal service
Item 103828
Postal carriers distribute pension application blanks, Portland, 1936
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1936-11-24 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Item 105868
Postal worker appreciation, Portland, 2020
Courtesy of an individual partner Date: 2020-04-20 Location: Portland Media: Digital image
Item 109732
U.S. Post Office, Lewiston, ca. 1933
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1933 Location: Lewiston Client: United States Postal Service Architect: not listed
Exhibit
2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.
Site Page
"The Lincoln postal service has served the people of Lincoln for 185 years, since March 3, 1825. The mail route was established from Bangor."
Site Page
"… history because steamboats were used for postal services, to carry freight across the river and to other places, and to take people to where they…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
