Keywords: Fogg Shoe Factory
Item 9764
Shoe Factory, Springvale, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1875 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Item 21711
W. R. Usher and Sons Shoe Factory, Springvale, ca. 1904
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1904 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
