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Keywords: Forest Avenue (Portland, Me.)

Historical Items

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Item 75599

Congress Street at Forest Avenue, Portland, ca. 1933

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1933 Location: Portland Media: Postcard

Item 1213

Portland House, 121 Green Street, Portland, ca. 1882

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1882 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 12847

Park Avenue, Portland, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 54475

Assessor's Record, 248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station Use: Storage - Oil

Item 54474

Assessor's Record, 248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station Use: Garage, public

Item 54471

248-252 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Forest City Filling Station

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110115

Building at 234 Forest Avenue for Clough & Maxim Co., Portland, 1922-1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–1927 Location: Portland Client: Clough & Maxim Co. Architect: John P. Thomas; Poor & Thomas

Item 109996

House for J.L Watson at 426 Forest Ave., Portland, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Portland Client: Jerome L. Watson Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 111336

Riverton Park, Portland, 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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WWI Memorial Trees along Portland's Baxter Boulevard

On Memorial Day of 1920, the City of Portland planted 100 Linden trees on Forest Avenue, each dedicated to the memory of one military service member who had died in World War I, or who had served honorably.

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Amazing! Maine Stories

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.

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Site Pages

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Portland Public Library

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Mercy Hospital - McAuley Residence

"Hoping to expand McAuley, Sister Mary Laboure Morin, President of the Portland Sisters of Mercy, reached an agreement with Mercy Health System of…"

My Maine Stories

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

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