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Historical Items

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Item 101137

Rumford Falls Light and Power Company shop, Dixfield, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

Item 35106

York Light & Heat Company explosion, Biddeford, 1900

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1907-09-03 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 66022

"Warning," interior trolley car notice, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Seashore Trolley Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: ink on paper

Tax Records

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Item 77841

9 Temple Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Print Shop

Item 77840

5-7 Temple Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Company Use: Store & Office

Item 37451

2-40 West Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Portland Gas Light Co. Use: Shed - Storage

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151683

The Samoset, Rockport, 1917

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 Location: Rockport Client: The Samoset Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Online Exhibits

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

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Maine Medical Center, Bramhall Campus

Maine Medical Center, founded as Maine General Hospital, has dominated Portland’s West End since its construction in 1871 on Bramhall Hill. As the medical field grew in both technological and social practice, the facility of the hospital also changed. This exhibit tracks the expansion and additions to that original building as the hospital adapted to its patients’ needs.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Site Pages

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"The residences of Summer Street reflect Hampden’s 19th century wealth, for Hampden was a place of increasing industrialization."

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Historic Hallowell - A Walk On The Streets During The Ice Storm

"… to night Children play board games by candle light Although the ice storm caused bad weather It brought families and neighbors closer together The…"

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Seashore Trolley Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

My Maine Stories

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Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

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John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

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History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars