Keywords: Portland Terminal Company
Item 102823
Maine Central Railroad janitor Lawrence Newell, Portland, ca. 1920
Courtesy of Matthew Jude Barker, an individual partner Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 105310
Birds eye view showing Portland Railroad System and connecting lines, 1909
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1909 Location: Saco; Portland; Portland; Old Orchard Beach; South Portland; Cape Elizabeth Media: Lithograph
Item 54898
755 Forest Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Storage
Item 96136
160 Woodford Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Company Use: Gate Tender's house
Item 111337
Grand Truck Railway Terminal, Portland, 1910
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Since the establishment of the area's first licensed hotel in 1681, Portland has had a dramatic, grand and boisterous hotel tradition. The Portland hotel industry has in many ways reflected the growth and development of the city itself. As Portland grew with greater numbers of people moving through the city or calling it home, the hotel business expanded to fit the increasing demand.
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4
"… takeover bid for the Boston & Maine Railroad, terminated its lease with the Boston & Maine and refused to allow its cars use of the tracks."
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview
"… the downtown at Centre and Washington Streets and terminating temporarily at the river just south of downtown."
Story
Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis
The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.
