Keywords: brick power house
Item 8146
South Channel Dam bulkhead, Skowhegan, 1901
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1901-12-16 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 36206
Southerly Side of Water Street, Skowhegan, ca. 1888
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1888 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."
