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Historical Items

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Item 102279

Placemat for Forbes Dining, Wells Beach, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Wells Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25604

Page from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, Swan Island, 1859

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: 1859-05-07 Location: Richmond Media: Newsprint

Item 5453

Jacob B. Loring, Thomaston, ca. 1862

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1862 Location: Thomaston Media: Carte de visite

Tax Records

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Item 64417

Engine Room, Morrill Street (rear), Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: G.A. Crosman & Sons Co. Use: Engine Room

Item 77886

Rooming House, Tolman Place, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Congress Realty Company Use: Rooming House

Item 86301

Tool Room and Storage, Commercial Wharf, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Pauline Willis Use: Tool Room and Storage

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109974

Waiting room at Deering Oaks Park, Portland, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Item 109258

Darling Motor Company sales room and garage, Bangor, 1945-1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1945–1949 Location: Bangor Client: Darling Motor Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 116427

Elias Thomas house alterations tracings, Portland, 1902

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1902 Location: Portland Client: Elias Thomas Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses

Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.

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Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools

When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.

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Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room

"… her hip beyond repair and lived in the corner room on the first floor which is now part of the seating area in the Tea Room."

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Friendship Museum

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

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Welcome

"… graders and their teachers from Bath Middle School, and two experts from the Sagadahoc History and Genealogy Room at the Patten Free Library?"

My Maine Stories

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My work in the Mercy Hospital emergency room
by Katie Johnson

Katie Johnson discussed her time in the E.R at Mercy Hospital

Story

Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.

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Alex Mouzas: Passionate about sharing his Greek-American roots
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A personal, in-depth look into the life and contributions of area Greek-Americans