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Historical Items

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Item 12958

George A. Sweet General Store, Littleton, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1935 Location: Littleton Media: Photographic print

Item 13940

George H. Sweet, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Bucksport Media: Photographic print

Item 13647

George H. Sweet medal, Bucksport, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society Date: circa 1885 Location: Bucksport Media: Cloth, metal

Tax Records

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Item 32862

Dwelling, Ardmore Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Ethel E. Sweet Style: National Folk Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 88081

Rogers property, Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Geneva B. Rogers Use: Sweet Shop and Fish Market

Item 90175

Rankin property, W. Side Sunset Road, Cliff Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: James Rankin Use: Summer Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109763

Alteration and Additions to Factory Building for Lunn & Sweet Shoe Co., Auburn, 1916-1919

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1916–1919 Location: Auburn Client: Lunn and Sweet Shoe Company Architect: Harry S. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Maine Sweets: Confections and Confectioners

From chocolate to taffy, Mainers are inventive with our sweet treats. In addition to feeding our sweet tooth, it's also an economic driver for the state.

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How Sweet It Is

Desserts have always been a special treat. For centuries, Mainers have enjoyed something sweet as a nice conclusion to a meal or celebrate a special occasion. But many things have changed over the years: how cooks learn to make desserts, what foods and tools were available, what was important to people.

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Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine

Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Porter Lake

"In the early 1900s it was called Sweets Pond. Strong students have always liked going to the lake. Class picnics often took place at cottages on the…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Rose which was published in 1885, The High-Top Sweeting: and other poems published in 1891, and The Ballad of the Bronx published in 1901."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Alanson F. Sweet was born in 1845 and lived with his parents, Alanson and Ruby Sweet, in Avon in 1850 and lived in Strong with his widowed mother by…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass

Story

Pandemic Blues
by Darlene Reardon

Covid 19 Portland poem

Story

Passamaquoddy Maple, reaching back to our ancestral roots
by Marie Harnois

Tribally owned Passamaquoddy Maple is an economic and cultural heritage opportunity