Keywords: Preble House
Item 84816
The Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1935
Contributed by: Acadia National Park Date: circa 1935 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Photographic print
Item 82286
Preble House, Great Cranberry Island, ca. 1895
Contributed by: Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Cranberry Isles Media: Photographic print
Item 70641
97 Preble Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Preble Fuel Company Use: Office
Item 70573
Assessor's Record, 28-34 Preble Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Preble Corporation Use: Boiler House
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Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
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.
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - The Missouri Compromise: A Moral Dilemma
"… Compromise: A Moral Dilemma William P. Preble to William King regarding Missouri Compromise, Portland, 1820 Although delighted by the arrival…"
Site Page
Maine's Road to Statehood - The Final Vote
"… days later the bill passed on the floor of the House, 193-59.[29] Finally, after three decades of planning, organizing, lobbying and failure…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
