Keywords: Water
Item 81553
Portland Water District Casco Street office, 1964
Contributed by: Portland Water District Date: circa 1964 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print
Item 28389
Laying water main, Lubec, 1941
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1941 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print
Item 83646
45 Water Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Burnham and Morrill Company Use: Chicken Feed Manufactory
Item 83671
45 Water Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Burnham and Morrill Company Use: Storage
Item 151046
Additions and Alterations for the Camden Rockland Water Company, Rockland, ca. 1923
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Rockland Client: Camden Rockland Water Co. Architect: John P. Thomas
Item 151696
Water District Plant, Portland, 1928
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Portland; Portland Client: Portland Water District Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
Exhibit
Clean Water: Muskie and the Environment
Maine Senator Edmund S. Muskie earned the nickname "Mr. Clean" for his environment efforts during his tenure in Congress from 1959 to 1980. He helped created a political coalition that passed important clean air and clean water legislation, drawing on his roots in Maine.
Site Page
Lubec, Maine - Klondike: Lubec's Gold from Sea Water Hoax
"Thus each box was under water a month before its turn came to be examined. During that time the water, chemicals, and electricity had time to work…"
Site Page
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Story
Water is Music
by P Leone
Throughout her life water has played an important part
Story
Hand carrying water in Marshfield
by Dorothy Gardner
Ways of getting water in rural Maine. From fetching water from a stream to having a well.
Lesson Plan
Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the fur trade in Maine with a focus on the 17th and 18th centuries, on how fashion influenced that trade, and how that trade impacted Indigenous peoples and the environment.
