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Keywords: Survey

Historical Items

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Item 108768

Survey of lot no. 90, Durham, ca. 1790

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Location: Durham Media: Ink on paper

Item 98905

Trawl Survey for Maine Yankee, Westport Island, ca. 1978

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1978 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print

Item 116533

St. John River boundary survey, 1843-1844

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1844 Media: Ink on paper

Tax Records

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Item 32159

469 Allen Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Helen Elizabeth Needham Style: Bungalow Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 32526

125-127 Bancroft Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Knapp Price Style: National Folk Use: Bungalow

Item 33101

93-99 Bancroft Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Hancock Realty Company Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151873

Danielson residence, Northeast Harbor, 2013

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Mount Desert Client: Barbara S. Danielson Architect: Sage Collins Surveying, Inc.

Item 151800

Mori residence, North Haven, 2016-2018

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2016–2018 Location: North Haven Client: Toshiko Mori Architect: LaBranche Land Surveys

Item 151792

Jacobson residence, Tremont, ca. 1990

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1990 Location: Tremont Client: Bruce Jacobson Architect: Harris Hyman; Brecher-Hyman Associates

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

Exhibit

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Exhibit

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… Martha Ballard was an essential complement to the surveys and land sales documented in company records."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"John River Boundary survey, 1843-1844Maine Historical Society How the long-fixed line of 1842 was created can be examined in extraordinary detail…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"Twin surveys undertaken by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue

Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society

Story

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass