Keywords: Portland Manufacturing Company
Item 13273
Portland Company Civil War locomotive, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 13002
Fog Whistle Engineering Drawing, Portland Company, 1868
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868-08-13 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper, drawings
Item 70060
36-38 Pearl Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Shoe Manufacturing Company Use: Factory
Item 35429
705 Brighton Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Lucas Brick Company Use: Manufacturing - Brick
Item 111799
Cook, Everett, & Pennell building alterations, Portland, 1945-1946
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1946 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Cook, Everett, & Pennell Architect: John Howard Stevens and John Calvin Stevens II Architects
Item 110109
Cook, Everett & Pennell office space, ca. 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Client: Cook, Everett & Pennell Architect: John P. Thomas
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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.
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J.A. Poor and the Portland-Montreal Connection
John A. Poor's determination in 1845 to bring rail service to Maine and to make Portland the winter port for Montreal, along with the steel foundry he started to build locomotives and many other products, helped boost the economy of Portland the state.
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village
"… Portland Historical Society The village of New Portland was commonly known as West Portland and today is referred to as the West Village by most…"
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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village
"New Portland Fair 1951New Portland Historical Society In 1906 a corporation for a water company was formed. Warren B. Clark, E."
