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Item 15927

Men Hoisting Telephone Pole After the 1905 Fire

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Item 35447

Loading telephone poles, Masardis, ca. 1895

Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Masardis Media: Glass Negative

Item 27139

Somerset Telephone Company Telephone Directory, 1969

Contributed by: New Portland Historical Society Date: 1969 Location: New Portland; New Portland Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

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Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones

"The telephone is very useful to the town of Lincoln. If it never existed, then we would probably still have a town caller and would still be writing…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Charles K. Savage (1903-1979): The View from Asticou - Page 4 of 6

"He peppered electric and telephone company officials with visits, questions, and personal correspondence providing alternatives to their unsightly…"

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Historic Hallowell - Ice Storm Summary Notes

"… on the telephone wires and they were putting up telephone poles that fell down. Obviously most of the schools in New England were closed."

My Maine Stories

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR