Keywords: dirt street
Item 26655
High Street, Thomaston looking north 1870
Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Thomaston Media: Photographic print
Item 100189
Brown Street, Portland, ca. 1875
Contributed by: Maine Historic Preservation Commission Date: circa 1875 Location: Portland Media: photographic print
Exhibit
Maine Streets: The Postcard View
Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… more than a century ago, and its approach on a dirt road reminds us of what our old roads once looked like."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Memorial Day, Presque Isle, 1888
"… store front on the east side of the then dirt Main Street, across from G. H. Freeman Hardware Store."
Story
My father's world - the old farm in Richmond, Maine
by Donald C. Cunningham
A story about my father and our family.
Story
A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker
Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference
