Keywords: County of Cumberland
Item 31520
Locating the old houses of Cumberland map, by Hope Dilloway, 1989
Contributed by: Prince Memorial Library Date: circa 1871 Location: Cumberland Media: Ink and watercolor on paper
Item 33447
Main Street, Cumberland, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Cumberland Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Cumberland Media: Photographic print
Item 87345
Assessor's Record, 182-188 York Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: County of Cumberland Use: Unknown
Item 40257
Assessor's Record, 1291 Congress Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Cumberland County Power & Light Co. Use: Land only
Item 116606
Cumberland County Courthouse, Portland, 1917-1947
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917–1947 Location: Portland; Portland; Portland Client: Cumberland County Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Item 110225
Cumberland County Courthouse & Jail, Portland, 1970-1987
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1970–1987 Location: Portland Client: Cumberland County Architect: Wadsworth, Boston, Dimick, Mercer & Weatherill
Exhibit
The National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (NFBPWC) held their seventh annual convention in Portland during July 12 to July 18, 1925. Over 2,000 working women from around the country visited the city.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Exhibits
"Exhibits "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland Brothers of the Civil War Cumberland's Prince Memorial Library : Evolution of a…"
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"Serving the high school students of Cumberland and North Yarmouth, the Greely Institute building with its distinctive belltower was built in 1868…"
Story
ROCK AND ROLL CONCERTS OF SOUTHERN MAINE
by Ford Reiche
A story about Rock and Roll in Maine, 1955-1977
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will give middle and high school students a broad overview of the ash tree population in North America, the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) threatening it, and the importance of the ash tree to the Wabanaki people in Maine. Students will look at Wabanaki oral histories as well as the geological/glacial beginnings of the region we now know as Maine for a general understanding of how the ash tree came to be a significant part of Wabanaki cultural history and environmental history in Maine. Students will compare national measures to combat the EAB to the Wabanaki-led Ash Task Force’s approaches in Maine, will discuss the benefits and challenges of biological control of invasive species, the concept of climigration, the concepts of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and how research scientists arrive at best practices for aiding the environment.
Lesson Plan
Becoming Maine: The District of Maine's Coastal Economy
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to the maritime economy of Maine prior to statehood and to the Coasting Law that impacted the separation debate. Students will examine primary documents, take part in an activity that will put the Coasting Law in the context of late 18th century – early 19th century New England, and learn about how the Embargo Act of 1807 affected Maine in the decades leading to statehood.
