Maine Memory Network

Wall map, Gardiner, 1856

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1856 Location: Gardiner Media: Lithograph

Map of the town of Camden, 1875

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1875 Location: Camden; Rockland Media: Lithograph

Skylands, Mount Desert, 1922-2000

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1922–2000 Location: Mount Desert Client: Martha Stewart Architect: Landscape Design Associates

Peters residence, Mount Desert, 1992-2008

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1992–2008 Location: Mount Desert Client: Alton Peters Architect: Landscape Design Associates

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.

Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - The Brick Inn

"… of the Brick Inn has been noted on this 1861 Walling Topographical Map of the Franklin County with Town of Farmington noted (map from Library of…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Early Settlers

"The Ben Butlers tell us these murals were painted by Jonathan Poor, nephew of Rufus Porter. Other Farmington Falls homes boast walls with similar…"

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR