Keywords: West Branch
Item 15384
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Shawtown Twp. Media: Lantern slide
Item 8376
West Branch of the Penobscot River, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Patten Lumbermen's Museum Date: circa 1900 Media: Photographic print
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."
Exhibit
Maine has some 17 million acres of forest land. But even on a smaller, more local scale, trees have been an important part of the landscape. In many communities, tree-lined commercial and residential streets are a dominant feature of photographs of the communities.
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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911
… "Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias," a militaristic branch of the Pythian Order. Fashioned after the Army in every respect, their titles were…
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Online Items
… Strong, where it branched to Bigelow on the east branch and to Rangeley on the west. Because of the terrain in the western mountains the rails were…
Story
How I broke the mold for women to serve in the military
by Mary D. McGuirk
My life and career as a USAF Nurse
Story
An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania
Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021
