Keywords: platform
Item 76582
Fire muster stream platform, Gardner, Massachusetts, 1950
Contributed by: Town of Topsham Date: 1950-09-02 Location: Gardner Media: Photographic print
Item 31501
Rev. Charles M. Herring, Brunswick, ca. 1865
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1865 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 83664
Assessor's Record, 45 Water Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Burnham and Morrill Company Use: Platform
Item 37498
Assessor's Record, 56-90 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Portland Terminal Co. Use: Loading Platform
Item 109273
Summers Fertilizer Company Loading Platform, Searsport, 1944
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1944 Location: Searsport Client: Summers Fertilizer Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell
Exhibit
Many different types of trolley cars -- for different weather, different uses, and different locations -- were in use in Maine between 1895-1940. The "field guide" explains what each type looked like and how it was used.
Exhibit
At the heyday of trolleys in Maine, many of the trolley companies developed recreational facilities along or at the end of trolley lines as one further way to encourage ridership. The parks often had walking paths, dance pavilions, and various other entertainments. Cutting-edge technology came together with a thirst for adventure and forever changed social dynamics in the process.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - Ice Harvesting on Cascade Pond
"When the platform was frozen then you could cut the ice with saws, drag it out of the pond and up and onto the platform and shove it on to the wagon."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Harvesting Potatoes - Page 7 of 13
"… the field with wagons that were built with a low platform, allowing the barrels to be more easily loaded and unloaded."
Story
Becoming @ham_italian
by anonymous
@ham_italian is an Instagram account I created that celebrates the Maine ham Italian sandwich
Story
The Point
by Norma K. Salway
In the summer, on the eastern shore of Songo, kids dove from a leaning tree
Lesson Plan
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride Companion Curriculum
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
These lesson plans were developed by Maine Historical Society for the Seashore Trolley Museum as a companion curriculum for the historical fiction YA novel "Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride" by Jean. M. Flahive (2019). The novel tells the story of Millie Thayer, a young girl who dreams of leaving the family farm, working in the city, and fighting for women's suffrage. Millie's life begins to change when a "flying carpet" shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm and when a fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly, Millie finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. The lesson plans in this companion curriculum explore a variety of topics including the history of the trolley use in early 20th century Maine, farm and rural life at the turn of the century, the story of Theodore Roosevelt and his relationship with Maine, WWI, and the flu pandemic of 1918-1920.
