Maine Memory Network

Butler Block, Bridge Street, Springvale, ca. 1888

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1888 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative

Houlton Main Street, 1865

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1865 Location: Houlton Media: Labeled monochrome photograph

Hamilton property, Hillside Road, Little Diamond Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Virginia C. Hamilton Use: Summer Dwelling

Assessor's Record, 726 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Hamilton Brothers Use: Stable

Making Paper, Making Maine

Paper has shaped Maine's economy, molded individual and community identities, and impacted the environment throughout Maine. When Hugh Chisholm opened the Otis Falls Pulp Company in Jay in 1888, the mill was one of the most modern paper-making facilities in the country, and was connected to national and global markets. For the next century, Maine was an international leader in the manufacture of pulp and paper.

Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Architecture & Landscape database - George Coombs

"… learned drafting from Boston architect Frederick Hamilton. At the age of twenty in 1872, Coombs entered the office of Lewiston architect Charles F."

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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