Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Warren Mills, Warren, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum

Date: circa 1910

Location: Warren

Media: Postcard

Title: Mast shave, Warren, ca. 1856

Contributed by: Davistown Museum

Date: circa 1856

Location: Warren

Media: Cast steel, wood and brass

Title: Warren Block, late 1800s, Westbrook

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1890

Location: Westbrook

Media: Photograph

Address: 380 Warren Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Camillo Aceto

Use: Store

Address: 421 Warren Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: P. W. Wiley

Use: Storage

Address: 188 Warren Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Alice G. Shaw

Use: Garage

Samplers: Learning to Sew

Settlers' clothing had to be durable and practical to hold up against hard work and winters. From the 1700s to the mid 1800s, the women of Maine learned to sew by making samplers.

Presidents and Campaigns

Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.

Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.