Maine Memory Network

Bayside Park, Portland, 1913

Courtesy of Douglas Noble, an individual partner Date: 1913-05-08 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Bayside Oaks, Westport Island, ca. 1965

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1965 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print

51 Alder Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Etta M Dow Style: Vernacular Use: Storage

Assessor's Record, 52-58 Alder Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: William Davis Use: Garage

Anshe Sfard, Portland's Early Chassidic Congregation

Chassidic Jews who came to Portland from Eastern Europe formed a congregation in the late 19th century and, in 1917, built a synagogue -- Anshe Sfard -- on Cumberland Avenue in Portland. By the early 1960s, the congregation was largely gone. The building was demolished in 1983.

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Redlining and the Jewish Communities in Maine
by David Freidenreich

Federal and state policies created unfair housing practices against immigrants, like redlining.

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars