Maine Memory Network

Eugene T. Preble, Brewer, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Brewer; Brewer Media: Photographic print

Eugene Hale, Ellsworth, 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1880 Location: Ellsworth Media: Photographic print

Assessor's Record, 189 Oxford Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Eugene Cummings Use: Garage

210-212 Park Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Eugene Cunningham Use: Garage

Walker Street improvement for Dr. Holt, Portland, ca. 1895

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Portland Client: E. E. Holt Architect: John Calvin Stevens

The Nativist Klan

In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.

Guarding Maine Rail Lines

Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.

Music in Maine - MAKE

"1866Maine Historical Society Jesuit missionary Eugene Vetromile (1819-1881), from Italy, ministered to Mi’kmaq, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot…"

Music in Maine - Music in Maine

"Music in Maine Music is something we share as humans—non-verbal forms of storytelling and expressions of beauty and emotions through sound."

My family and Malaga Island
by Charmagne Tripp

The state of Maine evicted all residents of Malaga Island in 1912.

A Smart Horse
by Lynn Peasley Sanborn

The horse brings the hay home while the boys are swimming.