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Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"Kitty Kentuck (ca. 1810-1866), was the street name for Portland's most celebrated liquor seller. X Portland Riot Broadsides, Portland, 1849…"

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Streetscape, 1790-1930

"The Morton Block was remodeled in 1866, with a third story, a Mansard roof and fancy ironwork, stone ornamentation and slate roofing added."

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Life on a Tidal River - The Bangor Fire of 1911 - Page 1 of 2

"… city, save for the Portland conflagration of 1866." (“Bangor Fire”) The fire began around 4:00 on the afternoon of April 30th in a hay shed owned…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 4 of 4

"… for the years 1861, ’62, ’63, ’64, ’65, and 1866. Augusta: Stevens & Sayward, Printers to the State, 1867. Print."

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Bank of Cumberland Building, Portland, ca. 1845Maine Historical Society This ambrotype captures a sunny winter day on Middle Street in Portland…"

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 1 of 3

"Considered the finest Greek Revival public building north of Boston, the Merchants Exchange was built at Middle and Exchange Streets in Portland from…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"In January, 1866, the store burned, but a portion was saved by a volunteer bucket brigade from the Mill Stream behind it."