Maine Memory Network

Stanley homestead, Kingfield, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Kingfield Media: Glass Negative

Enoch Crockett House at Crockett's Corner, North Yarmouth, 1939

Contributed by: North Yarmouth Historical Society Date: 1939 Location: North Yarmouth Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 197 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Ephraim F. Ells Use: Stable

Assessor's Record, 205-215 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of Ephraim F. Ells Use: Stable (as Garage)

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.

Poland Spring: Summering in Fashion

During the Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth century, Americans sought to leave increasing urban, industrialized lives for the health and relaxation of the country. The Poland Spring resort, which offered a beautiful setting, healing waters, and many amenities, was one popular destination.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

… Library Sam Savage McGee inherited the Old Ell from his mother Marcia in 2003 and continued to rent the Old Ell out seasonally as his mother had…

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Old Ell is Born

The Old Ell is Born Old Ell, Rye Field Lane, Northeast Harbor 1939Item Contributed byNortheast Harbor Library By the year 1898, despite having…

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.