Keywords: eighteenth century building
Item 105477
Lucia Wadsworth's "assembly dress," Portland, ca. 1799
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1799 Location: Portland Media: cotton, linen
Item 28445
Brick from Montpelier, Thomaston, 1794
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: circa 1794 Location: Thomaston Media: Brick
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Shipping
"… and kept running in his employ in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In his papers, there is evidence of three major ships that he…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"Downtown from 1759 to 1815 The center of shipbuilding activity and settlement in the latter half of the 18th century was in what is now known as the…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
