Keywords: stagecoach
Item 29337
Dorrity Stagecoach, Blue Hill, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 79699
Abbot-Downing Concord Stagecoach, ca. 1882
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: 1882 Location: Rumford Media: Wood
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Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry
The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor
"As for Wabanakis, some followed tradition, paddling age-old canoe routes. Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else…"
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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History
"… and Rumford Falls Railroad, or all those stagecoach lines that used to run hither and thither? What was it really like in the spring when the…"
