Keywords: eighteenth century industry
Item 10293
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: circa 1789 Location: Winthrop Media: Beech wood
Item 10292
Contributed by: Davistown Museum Date: circa 1800 Location: Alna Media: Forged Iron
Exhibit
Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.
Exhibit
Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine
Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 3 of 3
"A combination of the eighteenth century English taste for clothes suited to an active country life, fine quality English dark wool broadcloth, and…"
Site Page
Historic Clothing Collection - Eighteenth Century - Page 2 of 3
"Eighteenth Century Bright pink petticoat, ca. 1780Maine Historical Society A quilted petticoat of bright pink calamanco (polished wool) with…"
Story
History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby
This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars
