Maine Memory Network

Ed LaCroix's gasoline Lombard Loghauler #6

Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1930 Media: Photographic print

Gas ration permit

Contributed by: Norway Historical Society Date: circa 1945 Location: Norway; Oxford Media: ink on paper

Assessor's Record, 281 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Maxim & Hersey Use: Gasoline Tanks

9-21 Casco Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Heirs of John Russell Use: Stores & Rooming House

History in Motion: The Era of the Electric Railways

Street railways, whether horse-drawn or electric, required the building of trestles and tracks. The new form of transportation aided industry, workers, vacationers, and other travelers.

A Focus on Trees

Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth-Longfellow House, 1786-1960

… Headquarters Drivers required parking places, gasoline stations, and better roads for their cars. These needs quickly changed the city landscape.

Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 3 of 13

… June, 2009 X In the 1930s some diggers had a gasoline engine mounted on it to power the mechanical parts.