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Historical Items

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Item 33888

York Bottling Company bottle, Biddeford, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Biddeford Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Biddeford Media: Glass

Item 20453

Dirigo Bottling Company bottle, Portland, ca. 1928

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1928 Location: Portland; Littleton Media: Glass

Item 29391

Webber's Drugstore bottle, Bath, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Patten Free Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Bath Media: Glass

Tax Records

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Item 99016

36-40 Plum Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Joseph Brenner Use: Bottling House & Club

Item 41773

58-62 Cross Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: J.B. Brown & Sons Use: Bottling House

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111341

Wampole Spring House, Poland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Poland Client: H. K. Wampole and Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Popham Colony

George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.

Exhibit

Jay & Livermore Falls, Pioneers in Paper Making

Alvin Record and Hugh J. Chisholm were instrumental in building paper mills in Jay, Livermore, and Livermore Falls. The two industrialists helped make the towns prosperous.

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Site Pages

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking Implements

"… glass Courtesy of Arlene Palmer Schwind X Bottle, 1810-1835 Western Pennsylvania Blown glass Courtesy of Arlene Palmer Schwind X…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1919 to 1934: The Nation Follows Maine Into Prohibition

"… and Disappointment Confiscated liquor bottles, Portland, 1927Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media The dream of outlawing the…"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"X Ginger Beer Bottle, ca. 1825-1850 Bourne, Denby, England Stoneware Collections of Dyer Library / Saco Museum Increasingly soft drinks were…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Saturday Evening Dances at the Westport Town Hall
by Deborah G. Greenleaf

Fond Memories of Westport Island

Story

From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars