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Title: Wood Island Lighthouse, Biddeford ca. 1890

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse

Date: circa 1890

Location: Biddeford

Media: postcard

Title: Wood Island Lighthouse circa 1929

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse

Date: circa 1910

Location: Biddeford

Media: Photograph

Title: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, Kennebunk, ca. 1840

Contributed by: Abplanalp Library, UNE

Date: circa 1840

Location: Kennebunk

Media: Daguerreotype

Address: 32-34 Casco Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Patrick Wood

Use: Store Building

Address: 178-182 Danforth Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: William Wood

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Address: 178-182 Danforth Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Alice Wood

Use: Dwelling - Single family

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

A Riot of Words: Ballads, Posters, Proclamations and Broadsides

Imagine a day 150 years ago. Looking down a side street, you see the buildings are covered with posters and signs.

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Friends of Wood Island Light

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.