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Keywords: Cellar

Historical Items

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Item 8994

Birthplace of Frank A. Munsey, Skowhegan, ca. 1919

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1919 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

Item 17091

Farm, Caribou, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Caribou Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Caribou Media: Postcard

Item 26056

Katahdin Ironworks Furnace After Restoration, 1966

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1966-10-30 Location: Katahdin Iron Works Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109511

Plans of House for Mr. F. W. Chandler, Brunswick, 1911

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1911 Location: Brunswick Client: F. W. Chandler Architect: Gibbs and Pulsifer Architects

Online Exhibits

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Civil Defense: Fear and Safety

In the 1950s and the 1960s, Maine's Civil Defense effort focused on preparedness for hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters and a more global concern, nuclear war. Civil Defense materials urged awareness, along with measures like storing food and other staple items and preparing underground or other shelters.

Exhibit

Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women

Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.

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The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels

Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle’s Historic Fire Station

"… (top floor), fire house (main floor) and jail (cellar). An addition was built in 1950 to house the larger ladder trucks."

Site Page

Presque Isle: The Star City - Growing Up in Masardis - Page 2 of 4

"… had recess, they had to throw wood down into the cellar so that the teacher could get it later for it to be burned in a wood stove."

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Design for rustic fence, gate, Bangor, 1867

"… should constitute three, well the fourth, his cellar the fifth his grounds the sixth, the passage to a house barn garden field or pasture is one…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Two-minute Tale of the Pandemic
by Nancy Creighton Collins

What everyday life was like during the beginning of the pandemic.

Story

Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall

Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.