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South Portland Historical Society

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Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music

"… Music Hall of Fame by Ken Brooks, Board Chair, Hall of Fame Inductee 2012 Maine Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum Click to learn more about…"

Music in Maine - Community Music

"Sometimes Grange halls served as town library and offered adult education. Leeds Grange Hall stage, 1975Leeds Historical Society The Grange…"

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"Lyre, South Limington, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Pitch pipe, South Limington, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society John Joy (1809-1878)…"

Music in Maine - Music and Television

"… in this area, Jim Crow was still segregating the South. I don't believe my father truly knew what a big deal that was at the time."

Music in Maine - Community and School Marching Bands

"… including Portland, Deering, Cape Elizabeth, South Portland, Berwick Academy, and Sanford parade down Park Avenue in Portland as part of a band…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Intersection of Centre and Washington

"… 1925, the Music Hall changed ownership to a pool hall, and the location changed hands from pool halls, bars, and other small businesses, until…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"The north-south length of the downtown is easily traversed in a 15-minute walk southward along Front Street from the Patten Free Library to the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Ledyard Block

"To the south, at Union Wharf, King sold property to William Ledyard and Asa Palmer for $300 in 1806."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"Epworth Hall and Seaside Hall also housed community events. Apart from the fishing industry, many laborers were attracted to Swan’s Island’s quarries."

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station

"… Free Library The current railroad station, just south of downtown at the south end of Commercial Street, was built in 1941."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Lincoln Block

"When summer came, workers would take the ice down south by ship where they could use it to keep things cold, so produce, meats, and dairy goods would…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Customs House

"… of the Customs House, at 1 Front Street, south of Lambard Street, was started in 1852 and finished in 1858."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Resources

"Westbrook, Perry D. Biography of an Island . South Brunswick: Yoseloff, 1971. Print. Thorndike, Virginia. Islanders Real Life on the Maine Islands ."

Guilford, Maine - BUILDINGS - Page 1 of 5

"French & Elliott Company, Masonic Hall, Odd Fellows Hall, Guilford, 1916Guilford Historical Society They had built it as a meeting place and had a…"

Lincoln, Maine - Main Street, Lincoln, ca. 1920

"… This view of Main Street in Lincoln looking south shows some of the stately old buildings that once adorned Main Street."

Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3

"A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the Bemis family standing adjacent to the store of merchant Hiram Hubbard."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 1 of 2

"1890Guilford Historical Society Here is the Guilford Town Hall as it was originally built, circa 1890."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Granite and Ice Industries

"… 1900s, when Mainers shipped a million tons of ice south every year. The crews would cut pond ice into two-by-four-foot slabs weighing about 200…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… the area of Broad Street and India Street, replacing decaying wharves; and the Dover Street Bridge between Boston and South Boston opened in 1805."

Lubec, Maine - McCurdy Herring Smokehouse - Page 2 of 4

"The South Smokehouse in the photograph may be similar to the larger smokehouses of the sort Hall saw, for even in the 1890s, there were a few of this…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - 1870 to 1915

"Today Giant Cement of South Carolina, owned by Spanish company Cementos Portland Valderrivas, operates Dragon Products, the only cement manufacturing…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Early Schools

"… was on the east side of the Sandy River in the South Strong area at the junction of South Strong and the road now known as Knowlton Road."

Guilford, Maine - Historic Buildings - Page 2 of 2

"& Mrs. Dwinal Hall as Hall's Restaurant for several years. Note the gasoline sold for 26 cents. Water Street looking west, Guilford, ca."