Keywords: Singer Block
Item 26642
The Singer Block, Thomaston, ca. 1871
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1871 Location: Thomaston Media: Stereograph
Item 26667
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 84864
63-65 Whitney Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Ida M. Singer Use: Dwelling - Three Family
Item 84865
Assessor's Record, 63-65 Whitney Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Ida M. Singer Use: Garage
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Business District - 1857 to 1880
"… of Main and Knox Streets, followed by the Singer Block in 1869, and the Levensaler Block on the southern side of the street in 1872."
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding Declines - 1857 to 1861
"Brown, Joshua Morton, J. O. Cushing, William Singer, Lemuel Strout, Burgess and O’Brien, Samuel Watts, Gilchrest, Stetson & Gerry, James Creighton…"
