Keywords: "Maine Law"
Item 20597
Neal Dow house, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 39927
Neal Dow house, Portland, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Media: Postcard
Item 110199
Children's Hospital, Portland, 1909-1966
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909–1966 Location: Portland Clients: Children's Hospital; Salvation Army; University of Maine Law Sch Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Exhibit
Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon
Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.
Exhibit
Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.
Site Page
Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law
"1820 to 1865: Temperance and the Maine Law Temperance Watchman Club No. 1 banner, ca. 1848Maine Historical Society An Era of Reform By 1820…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Arvida Hayford, Bangor, ca. 1867
"… it to "Irish men & women in open defiance of the Maine law." He further charged that Hayford provided housing for "bad women." View additional…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars