Keywords: Colonial Buildings
Item 109066
Colonial Theater, Belfast, ca. 1932
Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1932 Location: Belfast Media: Film Negative
Item 26906
Iron Hooks Used to Hang a Musket, ca. 1690
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1690 Location: Bristol Media: Metal
Item 37131
7 Colonial Road, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harry C Libby Use: Dwelling - Single family
Item 37139
23 Colonial Road, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Perley W Stevens Use: Dwelling - Two family
Item 110027
Alterations to New Jerusalem Church, High St. for C.B. Dalton, Portland, ca. 1903
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Portland Client: Charles B. Dalton Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Item 111662
John Calvin Stevens house, Portland, 1919
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905–1942 Location: Portland Client: John Calvin Stevens Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Architecture
"… From the first humble log cabin beginnings, Colony architecture has come to reflect that of many other Maine communities founded in the late 19th…"
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Colony Continues to Grow, 1874 - 1900
"The success of the colony was reported in the newspapers the following year. Thomas himself wrote that he only told stories of the victories of the…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
