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Keywords: Deering Oaks

Historical Items

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Item 148237

Bandstand, Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1887

Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-08-02 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 148247

Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1887

Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-09-05 Location: Portland Media: Photographic Print

Item 148252

Bridge, Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1887

Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-08-13 Location: Portland Media: Photographic Print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109949

Rock Garden for Deering Oaks, Detail of Planning, Portland, 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1935 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: unknown

Item 109974

Waiting room at Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 111346

Portland High School athletic field, Portland, 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1930 Location: Portland Client: P.H.S. Athletic Association Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Indians at the Centennial

Passamaquoddy Indians from Washington County traveled to Portland in 1920 to take part in the Maine Centennial Exposition. They set up an "Indian Village" at Deering Oaks Park.

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From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album

William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.

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Most Inconvenient Storm

A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."

Site Pages

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Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"Originally located in Portland's Deering Oaks Park, the statue was moved to the courtyard of the Portland Public Library in 1979."

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Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Allies & Allegiance: Military comradery at the Centennial, 1920

"… by members of the Wabanaki community at Deering Oaks was a crowd and media favorite. The state of Maine invited European and Asian allied nations…"

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Architecture & Landscape database - Frederick A. Tompson

"… Evergreen Cemetery (1902), the Castle in Deering Oaks (1894), the Armory on Milk Street (1895), the Masonic Temple on Congress Street (1912), the…"

My Maine Stories

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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.

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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