Keywords: Dumps
Item 6137
Slums and dump, Eastern Promenade, 1908
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1908 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 100164
"The Old Dump," Portland, 1919
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1919 Location: Portland Media: Watercolor on paper, wood, glass
Exhibit
Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant in Wiscasset generated electricity from 1972 until 1996. Activists concerned about the plant's safety led three unsuccessful referendum campaigns in the 1980s to shut it down.
Exhibit
Prohibition in Maine in the 1920s
Federal Prohibition took hold of America in 1920 with the passing of the Volstead Act that banned the sale and consumption of all alcohol in the US. However, Maine had the Temperance movement long before anyone was prohibited from taking part in one of America's most popular past times. Starting in 1851, the struggles between the "drys" and the "wets" of Maine lasted for 82 years, a period of time that was everything but dry and rife with nothing but illegal activity.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Pulp mill, Lincoln, 1915 - Page 1 of 2
"A narrow gauge train dumped pulp wood into the mill pond. It was then sent to the wood room to make chips for the pulp mill."
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 13 of 13
"A conveyors dumps the potatoes directly into a bulk body truck No more barrels, no more baskets, no more tickets and no more picking potatoes."
Story
My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph
Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.
Story
Black Lives Matter Protest Portland, Maine
by Joanne Arnold
Documenting the signage at Portland Police Station following the BLM Protests of June 2020
