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Historical Items

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Item 36003

First Parish Church pulpit, Portland, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Pierce Family Collection through Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 15512

Pulpit, Bradley Meeting House, Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Mystery Corner Item

Item 101499

Church altar and pipe organ, 1879

Mystery Corner Item Is this really the Second Congregational Church in Biddeford?

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1879 Location: Biddeford Media: Stereograph

Tax Records

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Item 83057

Smith property, N. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Lillian A. Smith Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111574

Arthur S. Bosworth cottage, Cape Elizabeth, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911–1951 Location: Cape Elizabeth Client: Arthur Sewall Bosworth Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

West Baldwin Methodist Church

The West Baldwin Methodist Church, founded in 1826, was one of three original churches in Baldwin. While its location has remained the same, the church has undergone numerous changes to serve the changing community.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Millerite camp meeting, Orrington, 1844

"He wrote that the pulpit was on the western slope of a hill and that there was space to seat "ten thousand" people."

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Old Church on the Hill

"… them, and a tier of wall pews in the rear… The pulpit… was elevated according to the custom which prevailed in those times of two-storied churches…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Church on the Hill

"… small ones with tiny doors at either side of the pulpit. From the time the building was erected, lack of funds hindered the work and in 1846 the…"

My Maine Stories

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Surprise Preacher in Corinna
by Sarah Mount Elewononi

What the wife of Rev. Wright did when she found out she was expected to preach on short notice.