Keywords: fencing
Item 108703
Chester Nickerson making snow fence, Hodgdon, 1950
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1950-08-23 Location: Hodgdon Media: Photographic print
Item 149923
A dirt road from Eastport to Meddybemps Lake, ca. 1900
Courtesy of John Howard, an individual partner Date: circa 1900 Media: Film negative
Item 76726
Assessor's Record, 18-62 St. James Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Fences & Walkes
Item 151286
Davis residence, North Castle, New York, 1998-2002
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1998–2002 Location: North Castle Client: Scott Davis Architect: Landscape Design Associates
Item 151903
Institute for Advanced Study Rubenstein Commons, Princeton, New Jersey, 2013-2014
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013–2014 Location: Princeton Client: Institute for Advanced Studies Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates
Exhibit
Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960
"Outbuildings disappeared, the fence and surrounding trees and other plantings changed. Gradually, the house was no longer in a rural setting."
Exhibit
From the last decades of the nineteenth century through about the 1920s, vacationers were attracted to large resort hotels that promised a break from the noise, crowds, and pressures of an ever-urbanizing country.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Design for rustic fence, gate, Bangor, 1867
"… of what he saw as the ideal gates and fences for different locales and purposes. This is "Gate No 1 and two patterns for rustic fence." Martin…"
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Barnyard gate design, Bangor, 1867
"… noted, "I have represented a 5 foot tight bound fence for a yard this is convenient for fowles but is unhealthy for cattle and more so for sheep."
Story
A Story in a Stick
by Jim Moulton
A story about dowsing for a well in Bowdoin
Story
Rest Stop in Scarborough, Maine
by Lee Evans
This is about our first visit to Maine in 1998. My wife and I moved here from Maryland in 2007.