Keywords: Maine Central Railroad Bridge
Item 148226
Maine Central Railroad Bridge, Portland Street, Portland, 1887
Contributed by: City of Portland - Planning & Development Date: 1887-07-09 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 1049
Rebuilding the old railroad bridge, Norridgewock, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Norridgewock Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad
The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad
"The Central Maine Railroad stopped at Farmington, so several communities north of Farmington decided to build a railroad to open the region for wood…"
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - The Railroad Station
"There were two trains that crossed the bridge that day, carrying a total of 2,500 people with 880 of them coming from Rockland and other places along…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.