Promised immortality, investors only lost their shirts on this canal scheme October 30, 2017Historyboat, canal, cumberland, infrastructure, maine, old, outdated\, oxford, portland, public transportation, this week in portland history, water By Troy R. Bennett It was supposed to be a project for the ages. In reality, it never turned a profit and now most of it has vanished.
Thousands of old Maine images will soon be available online for the first time October 19, 2016History, Home, Newsambrotype, daguerreotype, history, maine, maine hostorical, old, picture, tintype By Troy R. Bennett Last month, MHS was awarded a $149,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to digitize, catalog and provide free online access through Maine Memory Network to 1,000 images in its early Maine photograph collection.