Keywords: Farmers unions
Item 7748
Grange Hall, Atkinson Mills, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Atkinson Media: Photoprint
Item 17668
Union Square Hotel, Houlton, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1890 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'
Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - History of Presque Isle
"… and limited access to roads made it difficult for farmers to get potatoes to urban markets, farmers sold their potatoes to starch factories in the…"
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Governor's Potato Plot, Presque Isle, 1959
"… the then just recently expanded 50 states in the Union. Note the drawing of the SNARK missile which was then being installed at the Presque Isle…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.