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Historical Items

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Item 29322

Workers laying track, Kennebunk, 1899

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1899 Location: Kennebunk Media: Glass Negative

Item 23513

Film of sewer line work, Portland, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: filmstrip, 16mm

Item 29323

Trolley track work, Kennebunk, 1899

Contributed by: Brick Store Museum Date: 1899 Location: Kennebunk Media: Copy print from glass plate negative, photograph

Online Exhibits

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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.

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Student Exhibit: Historic Buildings on Madison Ave in Skowhegan

Take a tour and see some of the beautiful old buildings that used to be on Madison Avenue, Skowhegan? A few still remain, but most have been torn down.

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A Brief History of Colby College

Colby originated in 1813 as Maine Literary and Theological Institution and is now a small private liberal arts college of about 1,800 students. A timeline of the history and development of Colby College from 1813 until the present.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 2 of 7

"What became the Kennebec claim lay "dormant" until a minor shareholder named Samuel Goodwin found a copy of the Plymouth Colony Patent in 1744."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… a separate—although poorly defined—region that lay in-between the two, generally referred to as the “Sagadahock Country.” While the charter gave…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Hugh J. Chisholm, Sr. - Page 2 of 2

"… “model town” and engaged different firms to help lay out the lots and streets. William H. Chisholm, Rumford, ca."

My Maine Stories

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Story

How Mon-Oncle France came to Les-États
by Michael Parent

How Mon-Oncle France came to the United States.

Story

In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood

An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.