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Item 101668

Elihu Washburne on school and measles at Kents Hill, 1836

Contributed by: Washburn Norlands Living History Center Date: 1836-04-10 Location: Readfield; Augusta ; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80298

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from brother Valentine, 1840

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1840-08-26 Location: Westport Island; Readfield; Kents Hill Media: Ink on paper

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Item 80275

Letter to Sarah Tarbox from her future husband, 1840

Contributed by: Westport Island History Committee Date: 1840-08-22 Location: Westport Island; Readfield; Kents Hill Media: Ink on paper

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Tax Records

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Item 96693

93 Vesper Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: George G. Kent Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Item 54250

20 Canton Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Margaret E. Kent Use: Garage

Item 59984

Assessor's Record, 27 Lancaster Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: John J. Kent Use: Land only

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109667

House for Mr. M. J. Harriman, Kents Hill, Readfield, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Readfield Client: M. J. Harriman Architect: Coombs and Gibbs Architects

Item 109218

Daigle house, Fort Kent, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Fort Kent Client: Daigle Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 110499

Novogrod residence, South Kent, CT, 2002-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2002–2003 Location: South Kent Client: John Novogrod, Architect: Patrick Chasse

Online Exhibits

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John Burton with weeding spade, ca. 1900

Aroostook County Railroads

Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.

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Rosamond Weston Eddy bookplate, ca. 1925

Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels

Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.