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Historical Items

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Item 5633

Truck barricade at Dysarts Fuel Stop, Hermon 1979

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1979-06-14 Location: Bangor; Hermon Media: Photographic print

Item 22167

Planes taking on fuel, Old Orchard Beach, 1924

Contributed by: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society Date: 1924-09-06 Location: Old Orchard Beach; Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Item 31981

Flood, Ballard's Market, Hallowell, 1936

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1936 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 74949

Fuel Stop, Thompsons Point, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: The Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad Use: Fuel Stop

Item 85934

Assessor's Record, Storage for fuel etc., North side of Ashmont Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Storage for fuel etc.

Item 69549

94 Parris Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Economy Fuel Company Use: Office

Online Exhibits

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Nuclear Energy for Maine?

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.

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Protests

Throughout the history of the state, residents have protested, on paper or in the streets, to increase rights for various groups, to effect social change, to prevent social change, or to let their feelings be known about important issues.

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Moosehead Steamboats

After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.

Site Pages

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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Lasting Legacies

"Explore the enterprises that fueled the economy and the trades that helped pay the way. Open the doors of their homes and the secrets of their health."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 5 of 6

"… in 1820, these competing notions of property fueled widespread settler resistance, often violent, against the demands of elite proprietors."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Early Settlement

"… forests provided wood for building and fuel, berries, and nuts for food, and animals for fur and meat."

My Maine Stories

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Keeping Dance and Music Alive
by Cindy Larock

Cindy Larock's involvement in the traditional music and dance scene in Maine for over 40 years.

Story

Seawolf Outhouse Robbery
by Roger Ek, Seawolf 25

How necessity creates invention, and the moving of an outhouse in Vietnam.

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A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down