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Historical Items

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Item 109081

Kingsbury’s Store, Prospect Ferry, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Prospect Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 14563

Pishon's Ferry, Fairfield, ca. 1900

Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1900 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print

Item 79432

Rumford Center Ferry, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Rumford Media: Postcard

Tax Records

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Item 86773

Long Island Improvement Association property, 1 Wharf Street, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Long Island Improvement Association Use: Wharf

Online Exhibits

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Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Fallen Heroes: Last of the Jewish WWII Veterans

Listen to recordings from the last of the World War II Jewish veterans.

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Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye

The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - V. Changing times: the Swan’s Island Ferry

"Silsby was the first ferry to serve Swan’s Island, welcomed with a festive inaugural ceremony in July of 1960."

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Lincoln, Maine - Ferries

"The ferry could rock you off of it, but the bridge stays still. With the ferry, it takes you across the river and you have to wait turns, but with…"

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Old Bill, gundalow crossing Penobscot River, Bangor, 1846

"When they got to Brewer, they realized the ferry crossing to Bangor would be difficult due to the storm."

My Maine Stories

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Story

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.