Maine Memory Network

Richmond Island, Cape Elizabeth, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Cape Elizabeth Media: Photographic print

Page from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Swan Island, 1859

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1859-05-07 Location: Richmond Media: Newsprint

Richmond property, S. Side Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Horace W. Richmond Use: Summer Dwelling

Richmond property, East End, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mildred D. Richmond Use: Shed

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood

Photojournalism & the 1936 Flood examines the monumental destruction caused by the historic flood of 1936 through the comprehensive and innovative photojournalism done by the Guy Gannett Publishing Company in the weeks surrounding the flood.

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"Now we have steamers City of Richmond, Lewiston, Mt. Desert, Little Buttercup, Acadia, and Queen City of Bangor all running to and from this port.”…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Fishermen who went toward Richmond Island stopped at a place called Deep Ledge and those from the Spurwink River would fish along that part of the…"