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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland

"… Nearly HiddenMaine Historical Society When Peleg Wadsworth built his house in 1785, what is now Congress Street in Portland was on the rural…"

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

"The Preble home, to the east of the Wadsworth-Longfellow house, was demolished in 1858 to make way for the Preble House hotel."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The House, 1786-1960

"… accompanying slideshow show the evolution of the Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Congress Street, as Back Street came to be called, from 1786 to…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - Researching Your Home

"… Your Home Every House has a History Peleg Wadsworth deed of land to Stephen Longfellow, Portland, 1827Maine Historical Society Every…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"… rebuilding the garden wall along the original Wadsworth property line, workers noticed broken glass and ceramics in the soil."

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… he was born at a house on Fore Street, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived at the Wadsworth-Longfellow house for most of his childhood."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Quenching the Thirst

"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Craigie House, Cambridge, 1881NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site Henry Wadsworth…"

Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 2 of 3

"Stanley, 511½ Congress Street, Portland, Maine," features a mid-1890s balloon-sleeved blouse of red figured dress silk, the silk type now affordable…"

Music in Maine - Drum, Stockton Springs, ca. 1840

"… umbrellas and musical instruments at 92 Court Street in Boston from 1820 to 1844, specializing in bass drums for militia units."

Music in Maine - Community Music

"… added a club crawl, closing down Rockland’s Main Street, putting bands on the street and into local clubs featuring Maine blues bands."

Music in Maine - Bluegrass Music

"Event Records Streets of Laredo/Foggy, Foggy Dew, Westbrook, 1956Maine Historical Society Musician and television repair man, Al Hawkes…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Taverns, People, and Scenes

"Plan of Ann (now Park) Street, Portland, ca. 1802Maine Historical Society Plan of Ann Street, Portland, ca."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery

"… at the corner of Portland's Federal and Temple streets, just below the First Parish Meetinghouse, was a stagecoach depot and popular watering place…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Business as Usual

"… of Fore, York, Danforth, and Pleasant streets) was a largely Irish-American neighborhood with more than its share of kitchen bars."

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…"

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"Located at 135 Congress Street, it was a hot bed of recurring corruption, with agents often arrested by local police."

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Women Leaders and Temperance

"… Christian Temperance Union marching down Columbia Street in Bangor carrying signs such as "Bread is better than beer". X W.C.T.U."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Humphrey House

"He built the impressive Monk Humphrey House on Wadsworth Street, a grand three-storey Federal style house, which was dismantled around 1940."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Carr O'Brien Block

"… Carr O’Brien Block at the Upper Corner (corner of Wadsworth and Main Streets) on the site of the former Paine Store."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - The Paine House

"He carried on a successful trade in a store on the site of the Prison Store at the corner of Wadsworth Street."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Stimpson House

"Captain Rider’s son, Thomas, was also a joiner, who, among others, built his own house on Wadsworth Street."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Edward O'Brien moves to Thomaston - 1850s

"… at the intersection of Route One/Main Street and Wadsworth Streets, and currently serves as the Prison Store. <-Prev. Page ........................."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Wharf, Store and Blacksmith Shop

"Thomaston Historical Society This complex, located near the modern-day bridge to Cushing at the end of Wadsworth Street, was a thriving business…"