Keywords: Spearing
Item 30876
Bank Square and South Main Street, Guilford, ca. 1890
Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print
Item 23485
Contributed by: Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine Date: circa 1900 Media: Wood, steel
Item 83531
Spear property, Spruce Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estelle E. Spear Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 83106
Spear property, N. Side Seashore Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Estelle E. Spear Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 111305
Garage and shop for New England Public Service Co., Rockland, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927–1930 Location: Rockland; Rockland; Rockland Client: New England Public Service Co. Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
Exhibit
The Sanitary Commission: Meeting Needs of Soldiers, Families
The Sanitary Commission, formed soon after the Civil War began in the spring of 1861, dealt with the health, relief needs, and morale of soldiers and their families. The Maine Agency helped families and soldiers with everything from furloughs to getting new socks.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"The children would hunt sea birds and spear crabs and lobsters. The men went deep sea spearing for (Passamaquoddy) porpoises and seals."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth
"… location of the Spear shipyard, started by David Spear and carried on by his son David Spear Jr. until 1869."
