Keywords: Wooden
Item 66876
Wooden pantry box of T. L. Richardson, Strong, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Strong Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Strong Media: Bent wood
Item 14389
Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: circa 1850 Location: Bangor Media: Wood
Item 42621
215 Cumberland Avenue, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Harry Koten Use: Wooden Addition
Item 116466
Gorham Academy alterations, Gorham, 1909
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Gorham Client: Gorham Academy Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Bloomfield Academy
In 1842, the new Bloomfield Academy was constructed in Skowhegan. The new brick building replaced the very first Bloomfield Academy, a small wooden building that had been built in 1814 and served as the high school until 1871. After that, it housed elementary school classes until 1980.
Exhibit
LeBaron Atherton's furniture empire consisted of ten stores, four of which were in Maine. The photos are reminiscent of a different era in retailing.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950
"The End of Wooden Shipbuilding - 1910 to 1950 The large ships had short life expectancies, being driven hard and fast by their masters."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Farmington Public Library, 1916
"Notice the unpaved street, the wooden fences, and the elm trees, which have long since been removed, due to the Dutch elm disease, which was…"
Story
A Splash of Water
by Marilyn Weymouth Seguin
Reminisce of a lifetime on Little Sebago Lake
Story
Maine and the Atlantic World Slave Economy
by Seth Goldstein
How Maine's historic industries are tied to slavery
