Keywords: Telephone poles
Item 15927
Men Hoisting Telephone Pole After the 1905 Fire, Sanford, 1905
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 35447
Loading telephone poles, Masardis, ca. 1895
Contributed by: D'Anne Baillargeon through Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library Date: circa 1895 Location: Masardis Media: Glass Negative
Exhibit
Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
Exhibit
A Portland newspaper wrote about an ice storm of January 28, 1886 saying, "The city of Portland was visited yesterday by the most inconvenient storm of the season."
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - Telegraphs & Telephones
"The telephone is very useful to the town of Lincoln. If it never existed, then we would probably still have a town caller and would still be writing…"
Site Page
"He peppered electric and telephone company officials with visits, questions, and personal correspondence providing alternatives to their unsightly…"
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR
