Keywords: Grand Banks
Item 9536
Map of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, ca. 1860
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1860 Media: Ink on paper
Item 13293
Grand Army of the Republic Parade, Houlton, 1889
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1889 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"The grand new churches of the 1840s, still standing today, the Swedenborgian Church, the Winter Street Church and the Central…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - Dreamland and Liberty
"The first major event was the grand opening, which occurred in 1909. The people that went there were amazed by the grandeur of its interior."
Story
Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall
Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.
Story
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
