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Historical Items

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Item 11122

Log dead fall trap

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print

Item 15330

Alder Stream Falls, Dead River, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Lantern slide

Item 13579

Bear dead fall trap, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1895 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 85940

Assessor's Record, 156-158 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Rocky Hill Lodge Corporation Use: Dead Storage and Autos

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109215

Dead River Company service station alterations, Calais, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Calais Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109231

Dead River Company service station alterations, Houlton, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Houlton Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Eternal Images: Photographing Childhood

From the earliest days of photography doting parents from across Maine sought to capture images of their young children. The studio photographs often reflect the families' images of themselves and their status or desired status.

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Walter Wyman and River Power

Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Day 4 - Page 1 of 3

"A man was found dead because he was running a generator in his basement due to carbon-monoxide poisoning and that's what happened on day 4 of the…"

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Storm Poem

"This woven web of flashing silver was deadly. Trees cried out in anguish as their heavy limbs gave way to crack and separate, in turn crushing stiff…"

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Historic Hallowell - Days 6 & 7

"The sources of this deadly gas turned out to be none other than a generator recently installed. The man had not yet known that this dangerous gas was…"

My Maine Stories

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Orphanage on Revere Street
by anonymous

An orphanage operated by a Mrs. Oliver on 54 Revere Street in Portland, Maine in 1930.

Story

An allegory about the Vietnam war
by Bill Hinderer

An allegory about my service in the Vietnam War

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Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins

The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Longfellow Studies: "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Longfellow's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" opens up the issue of the earliest history of the Jews in America, and the significant roles they played as businessmen and later benefactors to the greater community. The history of the building itself is notable in terms of early American architecture, its having been designed, apparently gratis, by the most noted architect of the day. Furthermore, the poem traces the history of Newport as kind of a microcosm of New England commercial cities before the industrialization boom. For almost any age student the poem could be used to open up interest in local cemeteries, which are almost always a wealth of curiousities and history. Longfellow and his friends enjoyed exploring cemeteries, and today our little local cemeteries can be used to teach little local histories and parts of the big picture as well. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited the Jewish cemetery in Newport, RI on July 9, 1852. His popular poem about the site, published two years later, was certainly a sympathetic portrayal of the place and its people. In addition to Victorian romantic musings about the "Hebrews in their graves," Longfellow includes in this poem references to the historic persecution of the Jews, as well as very specific references to their religious practices. Since the cemetery and the nearby synagogue were restored and protected with an infusion of funding just a couple years after Longfellow's visit, and later a congregation again assembled, his gloomy predictions about the place proved false (never mind the conclusion of the poem, "And the dead nations never rise again!"). Nevertheless, it is a fascinating poem, and an interesting window into the history of the nation's oldest extant synagogue.