Keywords: Widow's Island
Item 101898
Freeman and Annie Colby, Westport Island, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1930 Location: Westport Island Media: Photographic print
Item 102266
Mrs. R. P. Colby residence, Westport Island, ca. 1908
Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: circa 1908 Location: Westport Island Media: Postcard
Item 89326
Angier W. Tapley, Widow and Heirs property, Brook Lane, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Angier W. Tapley, Widow and Heirs Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 87484
Chaplin property, N. Side Herman Avenue, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Luella Chaplin Use: Summer Dwelling
Item 109440
Insane Hospital buildings, Augusta; Vinylhaven, 1893-1907
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1893–1907 Location: Vinylhaven; Augusta; Vinylhaven Client: State of Maine Architect: George M. Coombs; Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects
Exhibit
Great Cranberry Island's Preble House
The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.
Exhibit
In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder
"… the letters of Caroline Briggs, a Massachusetts widow of relatively modest means who stayed at Rockaway House every summer from 1881 until her…"
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Summer Pleasures cont'd
"Her grandmother was from Atlantic and her grandfather was from Minturn. He was widowed at the time and they had never met before."
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
