Keywords: Powder Houses
Item 31747
Powder House Hill, Hallowell, 1938
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1938-05-18 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print
Item 66438
Old Powder House, Eastport, ca. 1938
Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1938 Location: Eastport Media: Linen texture postcard
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
Maine's Untold Vegetarian History
Vegetarianism has deep roots in Maine and this first-of-its-kind exhibition explores this untold story.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Hampden Town House, 1849
"… House in Hampden has to this day a quantity of powder & balls which were deposited there by the fathers of this section which were on the ground in…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Cutting and Ice Houses on the Bombahook
"Occasionally, brick or stone-walled ice houses were built into a bank of earth with an entrance facing the north."
