Maine Memory Network

Elm Street, Skowhegan, ca. 1868

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1868 Location: Skowhegan Media: Stereograph

Madison, View at Lakewood, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Madison Media: Postcard

Assessor's Record, Storage, Somerset Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Stove Foundry Company Use: Storage - Sand

Assessor's Record, Storage, Somerset Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Stove Foundry Company Use: Storage - Cooling Bunkers

Somerset County Court House, Skowhegan, 1873-1904

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873–1904 Location: Skowhegan Client: Somerset County Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Florence W. Tarbell estate garage alterations, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Bangor Client: Florence W. Tarbell Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad

The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.

Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - North New Portland Village

"… thee villages in the town of New Portland, ME., Somerset County. It was first called Gilman Stream Rips and is located about twenty miles Northwest…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"This town is located in Somerset County of the State of Maine. It is bordered on the north side by Kingfield and Lexington, and on the east by Embden."