Keywords: Privateers
Item 81111
Route 198 meets Route 3, Northeast Harbor, ca. 1954
Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1954 Location: Mount Desert Media: Photographic print
Item 70890
Letter on seized flags, ship, New Orleans, 1862
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862-05-18 Location: New Orleans Media: Ink on paper
Item 70452
181 Pleasant Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Mary A. Gunn Use: Private Hospital
Item 45526
169 Danforth Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Elias Thomas Use: Private School
Item 116365
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1898 Location: Portland Client: Henry B. Pennell Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Item 110089
Contemplated building for J.B. Brown & Sons, Portland, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Portland Client: J.B. Brown & Sons Architect: John P. Thomas
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
Among the Lungers: Treating TB
Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.
Site Page
"IV. Transitions and troubles: Private enterprise shoulders an island’s needs Left with no reliable connection to the mainland and few secure sources…"
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Ice Interviews
"… and Tiffiny McCollett Interview of Judy Dawson, private home owner in Hallowell Created by Mason Peaslee and Luke Armentrout Interview of Nancy…"
Story
Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw
Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass
Story
Nemo's Nightmare of World War I
by Mike and Bryan Luciano
Franklyn J. "Nemo" Burbank of Livermore Falls was our ancestor who fought in World War I.
Lesson Plan
Portland History: Signalizing and Non-Verbal Communications at the Portland Observatory
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson is an overview of Captain Lemuel Moody's (builder of the Observatory) signaling system used at the Portland Observatory. Activities range from flag making to mapping and journal writing. The "Signals" slide show allows students to look at Captain Moody's general and private signals notebooks. Students are asked a series of questions about the notebooks and Moody's signaling system allowing for a better understanding of the principles behind the Observatory.
