Keywords: Old Home Days, 1902 (Portland, Me.)
Item 12496
Old Home Day Parade, Portland, 1902
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Site Page
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901
"Mary Longfellow (1816-1902) Mary Longfellow, Portland, 1836Maine Historical Society James Greenleaf (1814-1865) James L. Greenleaf, ca."
Site Page
"… or Memories of a Lifetime written in March of 1902, some of the first guests of Harbor Cottage included artists George Hollingsworth (1813-1882) of…"
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.