2024-03-29T15:52:59Z
http://api.mainememory.net/oai
oai:mainememory.net:79394
2018-10-18T08:37:37Z
contributor:mexicohs
This graduation portrait from St. Theresa's School in Mexico, Maine, a Catholic elementary and middle school, depicts a 14-year-old John Edward Barry. Barry went on to attend Mexico High School before joining the U. S. Marine Corps.
Barry, who was born in 1925, was brought up in Mexico in a foster family. A suitcase containing this portrait, letters home, photographs of his birth parents, souvenirs, his Social Security card, a Purple Heart citation, baby shoes, and a number of other items related to his life was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79394
12 031 Mex
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Portrait photographs
Barry, John Edward
John Edward Barry, Mexico, 1939
Image
1939
25 cm x 20 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1939
oai:mainememory.net:79398
2018-10-18T08:37:37Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph shows the William C. Perry homestead as it appeared around the time that it was built, which was about 1904. The homestead is located on Highland Terrace Road across the street from Richards Avenue.
In the 1904 Mexico city directory William C. Perry is listed as a carpenter.
Glass Negative
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79398
12 008 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Richards Avenue (Mexico, Me.)
Highland Terrace Road (Mexico, Me.)
Houses--Maine--Mexico
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Perry, William C.
The William C. Perry Homestead, Mexico, ca. 1904
Image
circa 1904
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1904
oai:mainememory.net:79424
2018-10-18T08:37:37Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph of Horace J. Binford, was taken around 1920. Binford was the town physician in Mexico from the late 1880s until the 1940s.
Horace Jose Binford was born in Chatham, New Hampshire December 27, 1856. In February of 1882 he commenced studies to become a physician under Dr. D. Lowell Lamson of Fryeburg, Maine and in 1883 he attended the full course of lectures at Dartmouth Medical School. After his time at Dartmouth, Binford moved on to study at the University of Vermont in 1884 and graduated in 1885.
By January of 1886 Binford was listed as a physician in Mexico. Binford continued to live and work in Mexico until his death in 1944.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79424
12 032 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Portrait photographs
Binford , Horace Jose
Horace J Binford M.D., Mexico, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
25 cm x 20 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:80032
2018-10-18T08:37:44Z
contributor:mexicohs
Private John Edward Barry of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve was awarded the Purple Heart March 11, 1947, for Military Merit and wounds received in action resulting in his death on January 2, 1945, on Peleliu Island in the South Pacific.
Barry, who was born in 1925, was brought up in Mexico, Maine, in a foster family. He attended Mexico High School and then joined the U.S. Marine Corps. A suitcase containing this citation, letters home, photographs of his birth parents, souvenirs, his Social Security card, his baby shoes, and a number of other items related to his life was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Text
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80032
12 039 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Military decorations--New York--Newburgh
Purple Heart
Barry, John Edward
Purple Heart citation for John Edward Barry, 1947
Text
1947-03-11
25 cm x 30.2 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Newburgh, NY, USA
1945-01-02
oai:mainememory.net:80674
2018-10-18T08:37:47Z
contributor:mexicohs
This battered suitcase found in Rangeley about 2003 was filled with personal belongings of John Edward Barry.
The contents of the suitcase included a photograph of Barry's mother, his birth certificate, baby shoes, his graduation photograph and diploma from St. Theresa's Parochial School, a rosary and prayer book, and a class photograph and diploma from Mexico High School.
Additionally, a certificate of Barry's death in 1945 and burial on Peleliu Island, a purple heart certificate and military flag and a Western Union message advising his foster mother that his remains were being shipped home, and to make funeral arrangements, were also among the items contained in the suitcase.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80674
12 062 Mex
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Luggage
Barry, John Edward
John Edward Barry suitcase, ca. 1925
Image
circa 1925
14 cm x 46 cm x 29 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Rangeley, Franklin County, ME , USA
circa 1925
oai:mainememory.net:80697
2018-10-18T08:37:47Z
contributor:mexicohs
These baby shoes were in a suitcase found in Rangeley along with other memorabilia of John Edward Barry.
Barry, who was born in 1925, was brought up in Mexico in a foster family. The suitcase containing these baby shoes, a school portrait, letters home, photographs of his birth parents, souvenirs, his Social Security card, a Purple Heart citation, and a number of other items related to his life was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80697
12 064 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Memorabilia
Shoes--Maine
John Edward Barry's baby shoes, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
5 cm x 4.5 cm x 14 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:80936
2018-10-18T08:37:49Z
contributor:mexicohs
The bridge that crossed the Swift River in Hale was swept away in the freshet of 1870. A covered bridge was built to replace it the same year. It was located a short way above the house of Fred Porter, in a place on the Swift River that was considered more accessible to Rumford and Mexico. A cheese factory operated by George Richards was located nearby, and on the opposite side of the bridge was a small district schoolhouse.
Porter Bridge was demolished in an ice tornado in November, 1900. In 1901, after much controversy it was agreed that a high steel framework bridge should take its place, and the Red Bridge was built further downstream.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80936
12 040 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Covered Bridges--Maine--Mexico
Bridges--Maine--Mexico
Postcards
Porter, Fred
Richards, George
Porter Covered Bridge, 1870
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1870
oai:mainememory.net:81193
2018-10-18T08:37:53Z
contributor:mexicohs
The Kimball School was built in 1894 on Porter Bridge Street in Mexico. Due to expanding enrollment an addition was made to the original building in 1921. In 1968 there were classes for Kindergarten through grade three. In 1977 at the end of the school year the Kimball School closed permanently.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/81193
12 053 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Mexico
Porter Bridge Street (Mexico, Me.)
Kimball School, Mexico, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
15 cm x 20 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:81263
2018-10-18T08:37:56Z
contributor:mexicohs
This Symbol of Recognition, or memorial citation, is dedicated to John Edward Barry, who was born in Portland in 1925 and died in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Barry was brought up in Mexico in a foster family. A suitcase containing a school portrait, letters home, photographs of his birth parents, souvenirs, his Social Security card, a Purple Heart citation, baby shoes, and a number of other items related to his life and World War II service was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/81263
12 030 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
World War, 1939-1945
Rewards of merit
Ephemera
Military service--United States
Barry, John Edward
Symbol of Recognition for John Edward Barry, Portland, 1945
Text
1945-05-30
20.5 cm x 15 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Portland, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1945-05-30
oai:mainememory.net:79461
2018-10-31T08:49:18Z
contributor:mexicohs
This postcard is of the Gregory Inn located on River Road, which was once known as the Morrill Farm. For many years it was the summer home of General Charles Wilson, who was born in Mexico Corner in 1848, and eventually in the 1930's became a hotel for tourists known as the Gregory Inn. As of 2013, it is still known as the Gregory Inn and functions as an office building.
Photograph on postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79461
12 035 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Hotels--Maine--Mexico
River Road (Mexico, Me.)
Postcards
Wilson, Charles
The Gregory Inn, Mexico ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:80030
2018-10-31T08:49:24Z
contributor:mexicohs
John Edward Barry lost his life in service to his country by the United States Marine Corps. Barry was initially laid to rest at the Armed Forces Cemetery on Peleliu Island, but his foster mother, Fannie Bishop, later paid $75 to have him brought home and buried in Maine.
Barry was born in 1925 and brought up in Mexico, Maine. He attended Mexico High School and then joined the U.S. Marine Corps. A suitcase containing this burial notice, letters home, photographs of his birth parents, souvenirs, his Social Security card, his baby shoes, and a number of other items related to his life was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Text
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80030
12 030 Rid
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Death & burial
World War, 1939-1945--Cemeteries--American--Palau--Peleliu Island
Barry, John Edward
Notice of death and burial for John Edward Barry, 1945
Text
1945
8.4 cm x 15 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Peleliu Island County, , Palau
1945
oai:mainememory.net:79237
2018-11-02T08:44:48Z
contributor:mexicohs
From March 11 to March 23 1936, the Androscoggin River overflowed its banks. This image depicts the Ridlonville to Rumford bridge as it was being swept down the Androscoggin River on March 19. Rising water in the Oxford Paper Co. mill yard swept 5,000 cords of pulp wood into the angry river, creating a maelstrom of logs and ice that smashed against the 43 year old steel Ridlonville Bridge, and carried it downstream.
The flood was a product of 17 snow and rainstorms that blew into Maine during the first three weeks of March 1936. The rapid freezes and thaws coupled with the increased water levels from the storms finally led to the Androscoggin River overflowing its banks on March 12 at which point the destruction from the swollen river, awash with pulp and ice, ensued.
In the background of this photograph is the Packard block.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79237
12 027 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Bridges--Maine--Ridlonville
Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)
Floods--Maine--Ridlonville
Natural disasters--Maine--Ridlonville
The Flood of 1936, Ridlonville to Rumford bridge
Image
1936
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Oxford County, ME, USA
1936
oai:mainememory.net:80804
2019-01-15T09:39:19Z
contributor:mexicohs
"Gateway to the Western Mountains," announces this welcome sign between Mexico and Rumford. This is one of four such signs placed around the perimeter of the town separating it not only from Rumford, but also from Dixfield and Roxbury. Visitors are encouraged to head to the Mexico Recreation Park off of Route 17.
Established in 1818, Mexico has long been strategically located to benefit from its proximity to Rumford's paper mills. Its location at the confluence of the Swift River provides another advantage: the town is the gateway to the Rangeley Lakes region to the north on Route 17 and west on Route 2 to the Sunday River Ski and Golf Resort area in the town of Bethel.
Wood, metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80804
12 063 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Signs (Notices)
Welcome to Mexico sign, ca. 2008
Physical Object
circa 2008
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 2008
oai:mainememory.net:80031
2023-03-12T08:34:23Z
contributor:mexicohs
John Edward Barry, raised by a foster family in Mexico, Maine, was the son of Thomas Barry and Dorothy Mullaly of Portland. High school students at the time of the pregnancy, Thomas and Dorothy divorced soon after John was born. Farnum Bishop and his wife, Fannie, took over guardianship and raised him in Mexico with their two boys.
Barry attended St. Theresa's Catholic School, and Mexico High School, and then joined the U.S. Marine Corps. A suitcase containing this birth record, baby shoes, baby hair, letters home from the War, photographs of his birth parents, his Social Security card, and a number of other items related to his life was discovered in the attic of the Rangeley Inn around 2003. The suitcase was eventually donated to the Mexico Historical Society.
Text
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80031
12 038 Mex
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Birth certificates
Barry, John Edward
Barry, Thomas
Mullaly, Dorothy
Birth record for John Edward Barry, Portsmouth New Hampshire, 1925
Text
1927-07-27
19-2 cm x 20-7 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, NH, USA
1925-08-02
oai:mainememory.net:80943
2023-03-12T08:34:25Z
contributor:mexicohs
The Richards family stands in front of their farm in Mexico below Mann Hill in the latter part of the 19th century. Pictured left to right are Ephram Richards; Nancy (Ladd) Richrards; John Ladd, holding baby Lucy Ethel Richards; and Cindy Ladd.
Lucy Ethel Richards was born in 1894 and was the daughter of Nancy E. (Ladd) Richards and Charles V. Richards, and the great-granddaughter of Ephraim Richards.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80943
12 049 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Families--Maine--Mexico
Farms--Maine--Mexico
Group portraits
Ladd, Cindy
Ladd, John
Richards, Ephraim
Richards, Lucy Ethel
Richards, Nancy Ladd
Home of Ephram Richards, Mexico, 1894
Image
1894
11 cm x 18.2 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico , Oxford County, ME, USA
1894
oai:mainememory.net:80945
2023-03-12T08:34:25Z
contributor:mexicohs
Fernando Allen Richards owned and operated a sawmill on River Road in Ridlonville, now part of Mexico, Maine. Pictured here in front of Richards's house on Birch Hill in Mexico, is a Mr. Bradeen, Hattie A. (Swain) Richards, and Fernando, also known as "Allie."
Allie and Hattie lived in this house when they were first married, but later moved below the mill in Ridlonville, on the opposite side of the road.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80945
12 046 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Families--Maine--Mexico
Houses--Maine--Mexico
River Road (Mexico, Me.)
Group portraits
Bradeen,
Richards, Fernando Allen
Richards, Hattie Swain
Home of Fernando Allen Richards, Mexico, 1894
Image
circa 1894
10.7 cm x 18.2 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
Ridlonville, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1894
oai:mainememory.net:81192
2023-03-12T08:34:26Z
contributor:mexicohs
Kingdom School, also known as the Little Red Schoolhouse, was located on Back Kingdom Road off of Harlow Hill in Mexico.
Pictured in the front row is Bernard Doyen.
Students pictured in the second row, from left to right, are: Samuel Dorr, Emil Jolin, Lena Howard and Lena Jolin.
Students pictured in the third row, from left to right, are: Atwood Howard, Charles Dorr, Celeste Howard, Agnes Howard, and Clarence Howard.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/81192
12 047 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Students--Maine--Mexico
Schools--Maine--Mexico
Back Kingdom Road (Mexico, Me.)
Group portraits
Dorr, Charles
Dorr, Samuel
Doyen , Bernard
Howard, Agnes
Howard, Atwood
Howard, Celeste
Howard, Clarence
Howard, Lena
Jolin , Emil
Jolin , Lena
Kingdom School, Mexico, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
12.8 cm x 17-8 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:78819
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
The houses created by the Goodwin brothers along Main Street in Mexico.
In 1898 Eliphat Perkins Goodwin and his brother William Woodbury Goodwin moved to Ridlonville from Carthage and purchased six lots of land. By 1903, they had constructed six identical Colonial Revival duplex houses with hip roofs and small facade porches. These homes were rentals and much desired by the millworkers.
Photo postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78819
12 007 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Duplexes--Maine--Mexico
Houses--Maine--Mexico
Main Street (Mexico, Me.)
Goodwin , Eliphalet Perkins
Goodwin, William Woodbury
The Goodwin Houses, Ridlonville, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:78825
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
J. W. Rankin
This view of Main Street Ridlonville in 1908 shows the Bandstand located on left with Packard Block below. The Hotel Ridlon is on the right, next is the Wills Block and the Goodwin Cottages can be seen in the background on the same side of Main Street.
Day Hill leads to South Main Street where Will Day built one of the finest houses in Ridlonville.
Photograph on postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78825
12 004 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Business enterprises--Maine--Ridlonville
Main Street (Ridlonville, Me.)
Buildings--Maine--Ridlonville
Hotels--Maine--Ridlonville
Day, Will
Goodwin , Elephelat Perkins
Goodwin, William Woodbury
Packard, Simeon
Ridlon, George
View of Main Street Ridlonville from Day Hill, 1908
Image
1908
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1908
oai:mainememory.net:78833
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
H. J. Reynolds
An aerial view of Ridlonville circa 1900 showing the proximity of the Androscoggin River and Oxford Paper Company in Rumford.
Photograph on postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78833
12 005 Rid
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Aerial views
Androscoggin River (N.H. and Me.)
Oxford Paper Company
Aerial View of Ridlonville ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:78834
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph postcard of Main Street Ridlonville, ca. 1905, depicts the Wills boarding house and other local businesses near the center of town.
The Wills Block boarding house shown on the left, in the foreground, of this photograph was built in 1902 for Albert and Nettie Wills. The Wills created a boarding house to accommodate the influx of people pouring into the area to work in the Oxford Paper Company.
In the same building, as the Wills boarding house, on the left lower level is a Millenery operated by W.C. Stevens and the Kinnear Brothers have a grocery store on the left side of the lower level. The building to the right, of the Wills' building, is the Ridlon Hotel.
Up the road from these establishments, Day Hill leads to South Main Street. The road to the right continues Main street to River Road.
Photograph postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78834
12 006 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Lodging houses--Maine--Ridlonville
Photograph postcards
Main Street (Ridlonville, Me.)
Buildings--Maine--Ridlonville
Business enterprises--Maine--Ridlonville
Millinery
Grocery stores--Maine--Ridlonville
Hotels--Maine--Ridlonville
Kinnear , Brothers
Stevens, W.C.
Wills, Albert
Wills Block boarding house, Ridlonville, ca. 1905
Image
circa 1905
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Ridlonville
Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1905
oai:mainememory.net:78836
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
This view is of the corner of Granite Street and Mitchell Street. The parsonage is the second house from corner.
The Congregational Church in Mexico was established in 1903. Though the parsonage is located on Granite Street the Congregational Church itself is located on Main Street, in Mexico.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78836
12 002 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Mitchell Street (Mexico, Me.)
Granite Street (Mexico, Me.)
Religious dwellings--Maine--Mexico
Streets--Maine--Mexico
Congregational Church Parsonage, Mexico, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Corner, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:78838
2024-02-24T09:33:12Z
contributor:mexicohs
The Packard Rooming House on the left of the photo was built in 1901.
On the first floor of the Packard Rooming House, Simeon D. Packard established his grocery store on one side, while on the opposite side of the first floor was a dress cutting school. Mr. and Mrs. Kellock opened and operated the dress cutting school, which later became the Post Office for several years during the early part of the century.
George Ridlon was instrumental in choosing the location of the toll bridge in the background. The toll bridge was opened to travel December 28,1893.
Photograph on postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/78838
12 003 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Business enterprises--Maine--Ridlonville
Buildings--Maine--Ridlonville
Bridges--Maine--Ridlonville
Post offices--Maine--Ridlonville
Packard, Simeon D.
Packard House and toll bridge, Ridlonville, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Ridlonville
Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:79236
2024-02-24T09:33:16Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph is of F. Allen Richards at the gas pump of his garage on River Road in Ridlonville. Fernando Allen "Allie" Richards sold Reo cars as well as gas in his garage and lived across River Road on Richards Avenue. "Allie" and his father, Fernando Cortez Richards, formerly owned and operated a sawmill on the property. Riverside Realty is now located there.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79236
12 009 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Automobile service stations--Maine--Mexico
Fernando, Allen Richards
Fernando , Cortez Richards
Richards Garage, River Road, Ridlonville, 1935
Image
1935
2.6 cm x 8 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1935
oai:mainememory.net:79392
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
Mexico Historical society
This photograph shows the" Red Bridge" on Bridge Street in Mexico during 1936 flood. The rising water did not seriously undermine the bridge; The First National Store and the Esso Station can also be seen in this image.
The Red Bridge was built in 1901 spanning the Swift River between Mexico and Rumford. It replaced the Porter Covered Bridge which was located further upstream and was destroyed in November of 1900 in an ice tornado. In 1961, the Red Bridge was rebuilt and the high steel framework was replaced by more modern masonry.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79392
12 028 Mex
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Bridges--Maine--Mexico
Floods--Maine--Mexico
Natural phenomena--Maine--Mexico
Disasters--Maine--Mexico
Bridge Street (Mexico, Me.)
Flood on Bridge Street, Mexico, 1936
Image
1936
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Mexico Historical Society
, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1936
oai:mainememory.net:79393
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph shows the aftermath and devastation caused by high water, ice and logs from the 1936 flood on Main Street in Ridlonville.
The Goodwin Houses can be seen on the left hand side of this photograph. As well as the Tydol Gas sign in the back right.
Not only were many homes and buildings ruined by the flood. The Ridlonville Bridge was also swept away in this disaster and high volumes of debris from bridges, buildings, and in particular the Oxford Paper Company, up stream were deposited in the area.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79393
12 027 Mex
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Disasters--Maine--Mexico
Floods--Maine--Mexico
Main Street (Mexico, Me.)
Natural phenomena--Maine--Mexico
Flood on Main Street, Ridlonville, 1936
Image
1936
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1936
oai:mainememory.net:79400
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This postcard shows the Red Bridge that spans the Swift River connecting Mexico to Rumford, as it looked in 1901.
The Androscoggin River forms Mexico's southern boundary with Rumford and the smaller Swift River more or less follows its western boundary with that town. Mexico's downtown is located on land formed by the northeast corner of the right-angle junction of the two rivers. These low lying riverbanks in Mexico have flooded many times, including 1936, 1953 and 1987. The Red Bridge replaced the Porter Covered Bridge which was located further upstream and was destroyed in November of 1900 in an ice tornado. In 1961, the Red Bridge was rebuilt and the high steel framework was replaced by more modern masonry.
Photograph on postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79400
12 022 Mex
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Bridges--Maine--Mexico
Bridges--Maine--Rumford
Bridge over Swift River, 1901
Image
circa 1901
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Village, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1901
oai:mainememory.net:79403
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph depicts the Congregational Church in Mexico around 1904. This church is also known as the Green Church, it was built in 1903 and dedicated in June, 1904. It is believed that the church is also the northernmost boundary of Ridlonville.
The ladies standing in front of the church are unidentified.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79403
12 021 Mex
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Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Churches--Maine--Mexico
Congregational Church, Mexico, ca. 1904
Image
circa 1904
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1904
oai:mainememory.net:79404
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph postcard depicts the Abbott School around 1930. The Abbott School was built in 1907 on the same property where the Central School, which was razed by fire on Christmas Eve in 1906, had been located.
The five rooms on the first floor of the building housed the lower grades or Grammar School, while the upper grades made up the High School which occupied seven rooms on the second floor. In 1911 the name of the school was changed from the Central School to Abbot School in honor of Elizabeth Abbot who donated the land upon which the Central School was built.
In 1937 a new High School was completed and the Abbott School became the Grammar School and Junior High school. The number of grades taught at the school continued to decrease over the years until 1980 when, since a new elementary school had been built, the building was closed and sold. The building was soon after destroyed by fire in the early 1980's.
The front of the postcard reads "The Mexico High School Building"
Photograph postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79404
12 017 Mex
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Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Schools--Maine--Mexico
Abbott, Elizabeth Anne
Abbott School, Mexico, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1930
oai:mainememory.net:79406
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph depict the Fernando Allen Richards Sawmill in Mexico as it looked around 1904.
The sawmill was located in Ridlonville on River Road. It was both owned and operated by Fernando Allen Richard and his father Fernando Coretz Richards.
Glass Negative
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79406
12 012 Mex
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Mills--Maine--Mexico
River Road (Mexico, Me.)
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
Lumber industry--Maine--Mexico
Fernando , Allen Rihards
Fernando Allan Richards Sawmill, Mexico, ca. 1904
Image
circa 1904
12,5 cm x 17.5 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1894
oai:mainememory.net:79422
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This postcard of the Mexico Baptist Church shows how the buildings looked around 1903. The Mexico Baptist Church was built on a lot of land located on Roxbury Road next to the Mexico Corner Cemetery. It was purchased from Joshua Hall for $25.
Lumber was cut and donated by Mr. Daniel Austin on January, 1889, the building was started in May of that year. The first pastor was Reverend Albert Warner who came to Mexico in 1903. As of 2012, three additions have been added to the original Chapel.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79422
12 020 Mex
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Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Roxbury Road (Mexico, Me.)
Postcards
Churches--Maine--Mexico
Austin, Daniel
Hall, Joshua
Warner, Albert
Mexico Baptist Church, ca. 1903
Image
circa 1903
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Mexico Historical Society
Roxbury Road, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1903
oai:mainememory.net:79425
2024-02-24T09:33:17Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph depicts a building that appears to be a shop at the turn of the century in Mexico. This building is typical of those seen during the early 1900s in Mexico Village, or Mexico Corner as it was called at that time.
The banners hanging on the windows indicate that on the second floor of the building housed a Pool Hall and a Barber Shop, and the first floor was Meat Market and an Ice Cream Parlor.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79425
12 024 Rid
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Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
Village Shop, Mexico, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Corner, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:79437
2024-02-24T09:33:18Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph shows the Charles Stanley and Sons Market, located at 41 Main Street in Mexico Village, as it looked in early 1900s.
Charles Stanley founded his namesake grocery store in Mexico. Eventually he also opened one in Dixfield. After Stanley retired, his sons continued operating the store under the same name for 30 years.
An add in the 1906 Directory written by A. R. Turner publishing Company reads "A.M. Stanley C.L. Charles Stanley and Sons, Groceries, Meats and Provisions and a full line of canned goods, Mexico and Dixfield. We also carry a full line of Gent's furnishings,Boots, Shoes, and Rubbers at our Dixfield store. Telephone connections between both stores."
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79437
12 029 Mex
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General stores--Maine--Mexico
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Main Street (Mexico, Me.)
Stanley , Arthur M.
Stanley, Charles
Stanley, Charles Leroy
Charles Stanley Sons Market, Mexico, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
13 cm x 17 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Corner, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:79611
2024-02-24T09:33:19Z
contributor:mexicohs
This photograph shows Mexico Village as it looked around 1915. Specifically it shows the fountain in the center, for watering horses, at the intersection where Main street meets Roxbury Road.
The T.M. Stevens store can be seen on right of fountain. The 1915 Mexico Directory lists the Thomas M Stevens Store as a purveyor of "dry and fancy goods, boots and shoes, Main Street."
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79611
12 062 Mex
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Main Street (Mexico, Me.)
Roxbury Road (Mexico, Me.)
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
Stevens, Thomas M.
Mexico Corner ca. 1915
Image
circa 1915
12 cm x 35 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Corner, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1915
oai:mainememory.net:79612
2024-02-24T09:33:19Z
contributor:mexicohs
Ridlonville was once part of the town of Mexico. This image of Main Street faces south.
The second building is the Howard Hall Opera House, built for recreation and dancing by John L Howard. It featured a covered stairway. In 1926, the Strathglass Pipe Band of Rumford and Mexico practiced playing and marching in the hall. The hall was later used for basketball games and also as sixth grade classrooms until the Abbott School was rebuilt. On the first floor of the hall was Archie Mann's Bakery and Knauer's Beer Garden.
The building on the south side of the hall is A. E. Davis Dry Goods, established about 1901. It burned in 1907 and was rebuilt with brick. Howard Hall also burned down in 1978.
As of 2013, the Far East Restaurant is housed in the A. E. Davis Building and uses the lot where the hall once stood for parking.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/79612
12 061 Mex
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Main Street (Mexico, Me.)
Buildings--Maine--Mexico
Business enterprises--Maine--Mexico
People--Maine--Mexico
Davis, Alberto Edward
Howard, John Ludden
Main Street, Ridlonville, 1937
Image
1937
21.5 cm x 34.5 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Mexico Corner, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
1937
oai:mainememory.net:80329
2024-02-24T09:33:21Z
contributor:mexicohs
John W. Buzzell was a stone mason in the town of Ridlonville, now part of Mexico. His stable and granite yard appear in this photo, located to the east side of the Ridlonville Bridge, which connected Ridlonville and Rumford. He did masonry work throughout the Mexico, Dixfield, and Rumford area. Morrison's Garage was later located on this site.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80329
12 043 Mex
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Barns--Maine--Ridlonville
Horses--Maine--Ridlonville
Carts & wagons--Maine--Ridlonville
Masonry--Maine--Ridlonville
People--Maine--Ridlonville
Buzzell, John W.
J. W. Buzzell's granite yard, Ridlonville, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
13 cm x 18 cm
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:80951
2024-02-24T09:33:24Z
contributor:mexicohs
In 1887, Fernando C. Richards bought this sawmill in Hale from Blanchard Kimball. He sawed long lumber and singles at first and also ran a threshing machine. Later, he fitted the mill for sawing birch and was the first on Swift River to saw birch. In 1894, he sold the mill to Mason Brothers and went in with his son Fernando Allen Richards, who had built a a mill below Mexico Corner.
Pictured from left to right are a Mr. Bradeen, Fernando C. Richards, and two unknown persons.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80951
12 048 Mex
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Mills--Maine--Mexico
Lumber industry--Maine--Mexico
Bradeen,
Kimball, Blanchard
Richards , Fernando Allen
Richards, Fernando C.
Richards Mill, Hale, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
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Mexico Historical Society
, Hale, Oxford County, ME, USA
Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:80952
2024-02-24T09:33:24Z
contributor:mexicohs
G. A. Peabody
This aerial view postcard shows the towns of Mexico and Ridlonville nestled in the Western Foothills Region of the state and across the Androscoggin River from Rumford Falls. In the foreground, the roundhouse and trains of the railroad in Rumford Falls are visible. Ridlonville was later absorbed into Mexico.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/80952
12 050 Mex
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Aerial views
Postcards
Railroad roundhouses--Maine--Mexico
Landscape photographs
Aerial view of Mexico and Ridlonville, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico, Oxford County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:81409
2024-02-24T09:33:29Z
contributor:mexicohs
On June 1, 2006, a rock with a plaque reading "Rildonville Settlement 1894" was placed at the foot of Day Hill near the site of the former Hotel Ridlon. Members of the Mexico Historical Society held a dedication ceremony in memory of the section of Mexico once known as Ridlonville.
Beverly Melanson author of <em>Remembering Ridlonville</em> was present for the ceremony as well as Mexico Town Manager Joe Derouche, who played a significant role in the placement of the rock.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/81409
12 066 Mex
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Plaques--Maine--Mexico
Monuments & memorials--Maine--Mexico
Rocks--Maine--Mexico
Ridlonvlle Memorial Rock, Mexico, 2006
Physical Object
2006-06-01
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Mexico Historical Society
Ridlonville, Mexico , Oxford County, ME, USA
2006-06-01