Keywords: Mile a minute
Item 104628
Maine Turnpike approach to Kittery toll booth, 1947
Contributed by: Maine Turnpike Authority Date: 1948-09-06 Location: Kittery Media: Photographic print
Item 104637
Maine Turnpike toll booth, Kittery, ca. 1947
Contributed by: Maine Turnpike Authority Date: circa 1947 Location: Kittery Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Field & Homefront: Bethel during the Civil War
Like many towns, Bethel responded to the Civil War by sending many soldiers and those at the homefront sent aid and supported families. The town grew during the war, but suffered after its end.
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit
"… the pressure… Mattanawcook Stream, within a few minutes, rose to higher than freshet proportions and gouged a great excavation out of the abutment…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - The Great Bangor Floods: 1902 and 1976
"It took only 15 minutes for the water to flow over the banks. The water rose so quickly that people were trapped in their cars, and many cars were…"
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
