Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: Deer Isle school, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society

Date: circa 1900

Location: Deer Isle

Media: Photoprint

Title: Hunter with moose and two deer, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee

Date: circa 1900

Media: Photograph from glass negative

Title: Deer hunters, Stockholm, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Stockholm Historical Society

Date: circa 1930

Location: Stockholm

Media: Photograph

Address: 16 Deer Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Samuel J Agger

Use: Stable

Address: 16 Deer Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Samuel J Agger

Use: Shed

Address: 19 Deer Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Leonardo Russo

Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Indians at the Centennial

Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.