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Historical Items

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Item 12868

Katahdin from Chimney Pond, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Media: Photographic print

Item 67654

Forest Paper Company Chimney Construction, Yarmouth, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Yarmouth Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Yarmouth Media: Photographic print

Item 31388

Chimney removal, Lincoln, 1930

Contributed by: Lincoln Historical Society Date: 1930-11-24 Location: Lincoln Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 42824

Assessor's Record, 303-309 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Universal Laundry Inc. Use: Chimney

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109443

Boiler Room, Coal Pockets, Pest House, Hose House for Maine Insane Hospital, Augusta, 1895-1907

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895–1907 Location: Augusta Client: State of Maine Architect: G. M. Coombs; Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Item 116307

Fitzgerald house, Brighton, VT, 1888

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1888 Location: Brighton Client: George H. Fitzgerald Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Sylvan Site: A Model Development

Frederick Wheeler Hinckley, a Portland lawyer and politician, had grand visions of a 200-home development when he began the Sylvan Site in South Portland in 1917. The stock market crash in 1929 put a halt to his plans, but by then he had built 37, no two of which were alike.

Exhibit

Yarmouth: Leader in Soda Pulp

Yarmouth's "Third Falls" provided the perfect location for papermaking -- and, soon, for producing soda pulp for making paper. At the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th, Yarmouth was an international leader in soda pulp production.

Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Save the Skowhegan Grange & Granges in General

A brief history of the Grange in Skowhegan, its importance to community history, and a plea to save it from destruction.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"… by a parapet around the roof perimeter, single chimneys at each end, and chimneys along the back wall."

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Basic Fire Fighting Technology

"For example, when there was a chimney fire, the person would call the fire department, and they would blow the whistle one time."

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Fales Edgarton House

"… un-painted capes, surrounding a central chimney. It is fairly certain that David Fales, 2nd in 1786, built the house at 59 High Street, said to be…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

How Mon-Oncle France came to Les-États
by Michael Parent

How Mon-Oncle France came to the United States.

Story

A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton

A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.