2024-03-28T13:56:12Z
http://api.mainememory.net/oai
oai:mainememory.net:31053
2017-07-05T17:56:12Z
contributor:scarhs
This is a heavy leather shield/thimble used to protect the palm of the person sewing sails. This would fit over the palm of the person's hand with the thumb in the big opening. As the needle was pushed through the sail cloth this palming thimble would protect the hand from being injured or poked.
Leather
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31053
63.55.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Sails--Maintenance and repair
Sewing--Equipment and supplies
Thimbles
Marine canvas work
Palming Thimble, Scarborough, ca. 1850-1870
Physical Object
circa 1850
3.8 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31053.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
ME, USA
circa 1850
oai:mainememory.net:100463
2017-07-05T18:10:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Daniel Merrill, a Scarborough volunteer serving in the 7th Maine Artillery Battery, owned this Civil War canteen.
Soldiers of the Civil War valued few personal items more than their canteens, popular both for durability and multi-functionality. Soldiers used canteens primarily to carry water, though sometimes they held milk, cider, molasses, or even liquor. The canteen's usefulness did not end when it could no longer hold liquids; resourceful soldiers repurposed them into frying pans, wash pans, or entrenching tools.
The Union-issued canteen was simply constructed, consisting of two pieces of tin-plated iron soldered together. The canteen had a pewter spout and cork, and was covered with cloth, which when wet helped keep the water cool. It was carried by a cotton drill strap.
The phrase, "we drank from the same canteen" became popular among veterans to evoke the dangers they shared in their youth during the Civil War.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100463
61.3.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Merrill, Daniel--Associated objects
Military service--1860-1870
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Veterans--Civil War
Soldiers--Maine
Canteens (Beverage containers)
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1864)
Merrill, Daniel
Civil War canteen, Scarborough, ca. 1863
Physical Object
circa 1863
20.3 cm x 20.3 cm x 7.62 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100463.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1863
oai:mainememory.net:100465
2017-07-05T18:10:54Z
contributor:scarhs
J.B. Lippincott & Co. of Philadelphia
This U.S. Infantry Tactics manual was owned and carried during the Civil War by Horatio Hight, 2nd Lieutenant in Company C of the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment.
The purpose of the 450 page manual was to educate newly enlisted volunteer officers in the handling of troops under their command. Volunteer officers did not have the training and education provided to professional officers who attended and graduated from West Point Military Academy.
By studying this manual, one would learn "The school of the soldier; the school of the company; instruction for skirmishes; the general calls, the calls for skirmishes, and the school of the battalion; including the articles of war and a dictionary of military terms."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100465
80.6.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Military service, Voluntary
Military service--1860-1870
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Veterans--Civil War
Hight, Horatio
U.S. Infantry Tactic Manual, Scarborough, 1861
Physical Object
1861-05-01
13.3 cm x 8.89 cm x 3.18 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100465.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1861-05-01
oai:mainememory.net:100469
2017-07-05T18:10:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Hiram Gustin owned this Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) pin. Gustin served in the 9th Maine Infantry, Company K during the Civil War.
The GAR was an organization honorably discharged Union Civil War veterans. This group was founded in 1866 to support veterans and their families as well as a means to keep in touch with their comrades after the war. In 1890 the group's membership was approximately 500,000.
The GAR worked to secure federal pensions for the veterans and their families. Another activity they were known for was participating in parades and wreath laying ceremonies to honor fallen veterans. The GAR's national Commander-in-Chief, General John Logan, established the first Memorial Day.
GAR members formed posts, and these posts were named after a local Civil War veteran killed in battle. Local posts belonged to their state department, and the states were a part of the national organization. The national and state departments held annual conventions, or encampments, lasting several days which included business meetings, memorial services, dinners, and fellowship while camping out.
The last GAR member passed away in 1956 and the GAR then no longer existed.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100469
76.8.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Gustin, Hiram--Associated objects
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service--1860-1870
Grand Army of the Republic. Department of Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 9th (1862-1865)
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
Gustin, Hiram
Logan , John W.
GAR pin, Scarborough, ca. 1866
Physical Object
circa 1866
4.45 cm x 6.35 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100469.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1866
oai:mainememory.net:100235
2017-07-05T18:10:55Z
contributor:scarhs
State of Maine
The document shows that Stephen Brown of Scarborough, who enlisted in the 17th Regiment, Co. H, of the Maine Volunteers, to serve in the Civil War. Brown, could be counted toward Scarborough's quota.
Brown, who was born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, had enlisted on July 15, 1862, and mustered in in Portland on August 2, 1862. Brown was single at the time and worked as a house painter.
On November 15, 1863, he was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corp, where disabled or partially disabled veterans were given light duty. He mustered out of the infantry on June 15, 1864.
On June 5, 1875, he married Catherine Mallett, also of Nova Scotia, in Boston. Brown was 40 at the time. The couple moved to Gorham where Brown worked as a paper hanger. He died in Middleborough, Massachusetts, at age 66, of pneumonia, and is buried there.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100235
1965.51.175
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Recruiting and enlistment
Recruiting and enlistment
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Brown, Stephen
Stephen Brown enlistment certification, Scarborough, 1862
Text
1862-08-04
18.627 cm x 21.59 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100235.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1862-08-04
oai:mainememory.net:29381
2018-10-18T08:28:37Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
This meet was the official opening and grand celebration of the Portland Airport on Sept. 28 and 29, 1928. Although the airport was called Portland Airport, it was located in Scarborough on a 220 acre parcel of land located at the end of Libby Road. A decade later the airport became obsolete because it could not expand its runway to meet the demand of the larger aircraft. Today the site is the location of the Scarborough Industrial park.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29381
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Airports--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Biplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Ceremonies--Maine--Scarborough
Dedications--Maine--Scarborough
Air Meet at Portland Airport in Scarborough, 1928
Image
1928
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29381.JPG
Transportation
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1928
oai:mainememory.net:31060
2018-10-18T08:28:44Z
contributor:scarhs
This lobster trap branding iron was in use in 1961.
In Maine, every lobstermen has his own license number from the state which is on the bottom of the branding iron. In 1961, every licensed lobstering family had a fifty gallon fire barrel at the back of their house. This barrel became used as an outdoor means for burning such items as paper and wood. The top was open and a vent hole was made about half way down. The lobstermen used the vent to heat the branding iron. The intense heat would allow the lobstermen to brand ten to fifteen traps at one time. The lobstermen could feel the heat about half way up the handle so didn't need to worry about burning himself.
On the bottom of the trap where the parlor bumper is located is where the trap was branded.This method of branding is still in use today for any wooden traps.
Iron
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31060
00.644.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
brands
Lobster fisheries--Equpment and supplies
Lobster traps--Maine
Tools and equipment
Lobster Trap Branding Iron, 1961
Physical Object
1961
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31060.JPG
Lobstering
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
ME, USA
1961
oai:mainememory.net:31062
2018-10-18T08:28:44Z
contributor:scarhs
This is a model of a sluiceway also called flapper or tide gate valves. These were placed in dike walls every 50-100 feet, the sluiceway door valve would begin to open as the tide fell, allowing any fresh water in the dike to flush into the ditches and eventually into rivers and to the ocean; as the tide rose the valve closed preventing the salt water from flowing into the dike.
Wood
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31062
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Marshes--Maine--Scarborough
Dikes (Engineering)--Maine--Scarborough
Earthwork--Maine--Scarborough
Dams--Maine--Scarborough
Sluice gates--Maine--Scarborough
Sluices--Maine--Scarborough
Sluice gates--Design and construction--Maine--Scarborough
Models and modelmaking--Maine--Scarborough
Engineering models--Maine--Scarborough
Sluiceway, Scarborough, 1963
Physical Object
1963
31.7 cm x 29.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31062.JPG
The Marsh
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1963
oai:mainememory.net:31082
2018-10-18T08:28:44Z
contributor:scarhs
A fog horn was carried on every boat to be blown in heavy fog conditions. The horn would be blown several times during the hour. The purpose was to warn other boaters during heavy fog to prevent collisions. This style was made of aluminum. This was manually blown not like today's devices.
Aluminum
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31082
02.48.20
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Collisions at sea--Prevention
Signals and signaling--Maine--Scarborough
Aids to navigation--Maine--Scarborough
Navigation--Equipment and supplies
Fog-signals--Maine--Scarborough
Horns (Communication devices)--Maine--Scarborough
Fog Horn, Scarborough, ca. 1945
Physical Object
circa 1945
8.89 cm x 43.8 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31082.JPG
Fishing
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1945
oai:mainememory.net:100458
2018-10-18T08:40:39Z
contributor:scarhs
Hiram Berry, a Civil War veteran, was born in Scarborough on August 15, 1843. On October 19, 1861 at age 18, he enlisted as a private in the 12th Maine Infantry, Company C. The regiment was mustered out on March 14, 1864 at Camp Parapet, Louisiana. Immediately Berry re-enlisted in the same regiment and company. He finally was discharged from the service on April 18, 1866.
After the war, Berry returned to Scarborough where he worked as a carpenter and farmer. On September 28, 1895, at age 52, Berry married 21-year-old Edith May Storey. Together they raised ten children.
Hiram Berry died in Scarborough on January 8, 1915 and is buried in Dunstan Cemetery in Scarborough.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100458
None
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Soldiers--Maine
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Camp Parapet (New Orleans, La.)
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Berry, Hiram
Storey, Edith May
Hiram Berry, Scarborough, ca. 1915
Image
circa 1915
35.56 cm x 30.48 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100458.JPG
Morris Berry
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1915
oai:mainememory.net:31058
2019-01-15T09:30:52Z
contributor:scarhs
Pitchforks were used for haying, either regular hay or salt marsh hay. Forks could have anywhere from two to four prongs/tines. Pitchforks were often used to make mounds of hay near the staddles.
Wood, metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31058
73.20.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Pitchforks--Maine--Scarborough
Agricultural machinery & implements--Maine--Scarborough
Hay--Harvesting--Maine--Scarborough
Pitchfork, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Physical Object
circa 1950
11.4 cm x 137 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31058.JPG
The Marsh
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:31061
2019-01-15T09:30:52Z
contributor:scarhs
The bog shoe, made of wood and iron and squared off in front, was a homemade item with the help of a blacksmith. The purpose of a bog shoe is similar to a snowshoe. It was put on horse and oxen hoofs, and used to prevent the animal from sinking into the marsh.
Use of the bog shoe saved the men from carrying the hay on poles and slab structures similar to a stretcher.
The bog shoe made working easier for the men because animals could be used to pull wagons full of hay.
Wood, iron
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31061
63.66.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Agricultural machinery & implements--Maine--Scarborough
Harvesting--Maine--Scarborough
Hay--Harvesting--Maine--Scarborough
horseshoes (animal equipment)
Oxen--Equipment and supplies
Horses--Equipment and supplies
Marshes--Maine--Scarborough
Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Haying equipment--Maine--Scarborough
Bog Shoe, Scarborough, 1870
Physical Object
1870
19 cm x 22 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31061.JPG
The Marsh
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1870
oai:mainememory.net:31083
2019-01-16T09:39:23Z
contributor:scarhs
Fishing net with cork floats which were attached by using organic sisal rope. The net would drop down into the water to catch available fish. The corks would float on top of the water. The mesh size of the net would determine the type of fish caught. The size of the cork would remain the same. If the net had bigger openings then more corks were added.
Netting,cork
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31083
07.133.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fishing nets--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing--Equipment and supplies
Fishing Net with attached cork floats, ca. 1945
Physical Object
circa 1945
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31083.JPG
Fishing
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1945
oai:mainememory.net:29358
2022-06-29T05:29:12Z
contributor:scarhs
P. E. Woodman
These structures, called marsh staddles, once dotted the Scarborough marsh during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Even though the top sections have been exposed to years of weather and tides, the bottom is still strong and several remaining staddles can be seen today because the sod of the marsh is such that no wood rots in it.
The basic design was placement of ash or cedar logs in about a 10 foot circle. Cord grass was put on top of the logs and made a platform for adding salt water hay on top of it. That hay (cone shaped) was stacked in such a way (like roof thatching) that it would stay. Sometimes, the hay might be circled with rope which was staked. This apparently kept the wind from destroying a given hay cone. The completed staddle would be about 16-18 feet high.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29358
74.12.11
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Farming--Maine--Scarborough
Salt marshes--Maine--Scarborough
Hay--Maine--Scarborough
Haystacks--Maine--Scarborough
Wetlands--Maine--Scarborough
Salt marsh plants--Maine--Scarborough
Marsh Staddle, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29358.JPG
The Marsh
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:31055
2022-06-29T05:29:23Z
contributor:scarhs
Bruce Thurlow
This bait sponger was a homemade item used by lobster fishermen consisting of a wood handle and stainless steel rod. A notch was made in the rod using a hacksaw. The lobstermen would push the rod through the eyes of filleted fish onto the bait line of each trap. The line was nailed to the bottom of the trap and tied to the top holding the fish in place and the door shut. This was in use until herring bait replaced it.
Wood, steel
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31055
08.18.1a
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Lobster fisheries--Equpment and supplies
Tools
Bait Sponger, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Physical Object
circa 1920
2.5 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31055.JPG
Lobstering
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:31056
2022-06-29T05:29:23Z
contributor:scarhs
Bruce Thurlow
This lobster measuring tool was used to measure the length of a lobster. The hook is put in the eye socket and run along the back of the lobster to see if it's long enough to keep. In Maine if the size is too small or too large then the lobster must be thrown back into the water. The average size of the lobster is between one and five pounds.
Metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31056
08.18.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Lobsters--Maine
Lobster fisheries--Equpment and supplies
Tools
Measuring instruments
Lobster Measure, ca. 1920
Physical Object
circa 1920
1.2 cm x 13.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31056.JPG
Lobstering
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:31339
2022-06-29T05:29:32Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
This school was built in 1876 and discontinued in 1959. It had been named for the resident families living in that area. It was a one room school. However, one year the participation of 59 students caused a need to hire another teacher. After it closed, the building was used by The Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Police Benevolent Society and is now the Lion's Club Den.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31339
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough Historical Society (Scarborough, Me.)
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Lions Clubs International
Organizations--Maine--Scarborough
Fraternal organizations--Maine--Scarborough
Libby family
Libby School, Scarborough, ca. 1959
Image
circa 1959
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31339.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1959
oai:mainememory.net:31711
2022-06-29T05:29:43Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
"In the mid 1920's, the ever growing population in Scarborough created the need for a new high school. The school is shown under construction in 1926. It became known simply as Scarborough High School until 1954,
when it was renamed for beloved principal and teacher Elwood G. Bessey, who had retired six years previously. No longer used for classes, the building is still owned by the town."
The above information taken from Rodney Laughton's book "Scarborough in the Twentieth Century."
In 2010 the building is used for senior housing and is called Bessey Commons.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31711
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Bessey, Elwood G.--Commemoration
Building construction--Maine--Scarborough
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Older people--Housing--Maine--Scarborough
Bessey, Elwood G.
Bessey School, Scarborough, ca. 1926
Image
circa 1926
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31711.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1926
oai:mainememory.net:33656
2022-06-29T05:30:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Dr. Philip Haigis and his wife Faith Stone arrived in Scarborough in 1944. He was the only physician in town in the early years. His office and home were located in what was then the corner of Scottow Hill Road. He had office hours seven days a week, made house calls and was affiliated with the Osteopathic Hospital of Portland.
Since Dr. Haigis often responded to serious accidents in town he realized an ambulance and a better method of serving the victims were needed. In 1951 he asked the newly formed Scarborough Lions Club to finance and outfit an ambulance for the town. This ambulance was the beginning of the first municipal rescue service in Maine.
Amongst his many duties he was also the official town physician and served the Scarborough Schools for thirty years beginning in 1945. Conversation with the older residents of town reveals that Dr. Haigis was a much loved and well respected physician.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/33656
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Physicians--Maine--Scarborough
Emergency medical personnel--Maine--Scarborough
Osteopathic Hospital of Maine
Ambulances--Maine--Scarborough
Haigis, Philip J.
Stone, Faith
Dr. Philip Haigis, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/33656.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:33675
2022-06-29T05:30:59Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This is the Oak Hill intersection in Scarborough looking down Gorham Road during the 1950s. The cabins on the right were operated by A.S. Lyons. The pedestrians may be students on their way to school.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/33675
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Cabins--Maine--Scarborough
Motels--Maine--Scarborough
Roads--Maine--Scarborough
Students--Maine--Scarborough--1950-1960
Traffic signs & signals--Maine--Scarborough
Lyons, A. S.
Oak Hill intersection, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/33675.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:34294
2022-06-29T05:31:15Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This is a map taken from a 1940 town report with the school locations, grades and number of pupils in each grade superimposed on the map. At that time there were still many one room school houses in Scarborough.
Consolidation of the schools began later.
Photograph, ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/34294
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough--Maps
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough--Maps
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough--Maps
Town Map with School Locations, Scarborough, ca. 1940
Text and Image
circa 1940
12.7 cm x 19 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/34294.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1940
oai:mainememory.net:100281
2022-06-29T05:49:02Z
contributor:scarhs
Zebulon Knight
Zebulon Knight, a Civil War volunteer from Scarborough, signed this document acknowledging his receipt of $400 from fellow Scarborough volunteer, Freedom Milliken, for Knight's enlistment on Scarborough's quota. James W. Libby witnessed the signing.
Knight enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 12th Maine Infantry on September 17, 1864. He was mustered out on July 22, 1865.
During the Civil War, the state and towns paid bounties to individuals, no matter where they lived, in in order to meet the quotas established by the state for each community.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100281
1965.51.98
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1862-1865--Recruiting and enlistment
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Recruiting and enlistment
Knight, Zebulon
Libby, James W
Milliken, Freedom
Zebulon Knight enlistment receipt, Scarborough, 1864
Text
1864-09-08
9.5 cm x 19.05 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100281.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1864
oai:mainememory.net:29349
2023-03-12T08:30:05Z
contributor:scarhs
The Libby Ice Wagon with E. Perley Libby to the right and Ralph Johnson on the left. The pond provided ice for a small family business for two generations. The business was started about 1880 by his father Asbury and his brother William Henry. Mr. Libby got his ice from the small pond behind his house called "Perley's Pond". It was also a neighborhood skating spot. This pond is located on the Scarborough/South Portland line a short distance from Route 1.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29349
63.31.11
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Ponds--Maine
Carts & wagons--Maine--Scarborough
Ice industry--Maine--Scarborough
Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Johnson, Ralph
Libby, E. Perley
Libby and Co. Ice Wagon, Scarborough, ca. 1880
Image
circa 1880
12.7 cm x 16.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29349.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:29382
2023-03-12T08:30:05Z
contributor:scarhs
This airport was a project of the Greater Portland Chamber of Commerce. It was the first municipal airport in the area. The airport became obsolete within ten years when larger planes required longer runways to take off and land on.
Charles Lindberg and his wife Anne Morrow were among the well known personalities to land here. Amelia Earhart and Amy Mollison also flew in here.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29382
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Airports--Maine--Scarborough
Aerial photographs
Aerial views--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Air pilots--Maine--Scarborough
Hangars--Maine--Scarborough
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974--Travel
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001--Travel
Mollison, Amy--Travel
Earhart, Amelia, 1897-1937--Travel
Women air pilots--Maine--Scarborough
Earhart, Amelia
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, Charles
Mollison, Amy
Aerial View of Portland Airport in Scarborough, ca. 1927
Image
circa 1927
20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29382.JPG
Transportation Airplanes
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1927
oai:mainememory.net:29398
2023-03-12T08:30:08Z
contributor:scarhs
This is an original document dated March 25, 1897. Eugene F. Plummer, resident of "Scarboro" applied for this permit on March 25, 1897. This permit is good for the year beginning March 1, 1897 to the last day of February 1898. No clams are to be dug from May, June, July and August 1897 when digging of clams were prohibited by the town. The permit was signed by the selectmen; P.L. Plummer, G.B. Thurston, and Turner H. Knight.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29398
05.42.5
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Shellfish industry--Maine--Scarborough
Fishingi--Maine--Scarborough
Clamming--Maine--Scarborough
Licenses--Maine--Scarborough
Knight, Turner H.
Plummer, Eugene F.
Plummer, P. L.
Thurston, G. B.
Clam Permit, town of Scarborough, 1897
Text
1897
11.5 cm x 15.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29398.JPG
Clamming and Fishing
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1897
oai:mainememory.net:29399
2023-03-12T08:30:09Z
contributor:scarhs
Town of Scarborough
Permission for John Kilbourn of Scarborough to dig clam bait in 1852, provided no thatch beds are disturbed.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29399
74.8.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Clamming--Maine--Scarborough
Clam fisheries--Maine--Scarborough
Licenses--Maine--Scarborough
Hodgdon, Timothy
Hunnewell, John
Kilbourn, John
Waterhouse, Stephen L.
John Kilbourn Paper, Scarborough, 1852
Text
1852-01-17
14.5 cm x 20 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29399.JPG
Marsh:Clamming
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1852
oai:mainememory.net:29401
2023-03-12T08:30:09Z
contributor:scarhs
Town of Scarborough
This permit by the Selectmen of the Town of Scarborough allows John Kilbourn and his son, Augustus Scott Kilbourn to dig clam bait between the months of February and May 1853 provided no damage is done to the thatch beds.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29401
74.8.5
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Clamming--Maine--Scarborough
Licenses--Maine--Scarborough
Clam fisheries--Maine--Scarborough
Bragdon, Solomon
Kilbourn, Augustus Scott
Kilbourn, John
Tilton, Henry A.
Protection of clams in the Town of Scarborough, 1853
Text
1853-02-18
24.5 cm x 19 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29401.JPG
Marsh:Clamming
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1853-02-18
oai:mainememory.net:31093
2023-03-12T08:30:12Z
contributor:scarhs
Program of Scarborough High School Graduation Exercises held at 8:00 pm on a Friday evening in June, 1893. Class officers include G.H. Libby, President; Bertha O. Libby, Vice President; W.H. Ormsby, Secretary and Treasurer. During the ceremony the Scarborough High School Quartet preformed music and students presented original essays. Scarborough's colors, cardinal and cream, were prominently indicated on the back of the program. Red remains Scarborough's school color today.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31093
98.13.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Students--Maine--Scarborough
Graduation ceremonies--Maine--Scarborough
Programs
Blake, Rovena I.
Cook, Grace E.
Gilman, Misses
Hunnewell, John A.
Kaler,
Libby, Bertha O.
Libby, Carrie E.
Libby, Estelle H.
Libby, George H.
Libby, Ruth E.
Ormsby, William H.
Wentworth, Ida M.
Scarborough High School Graduation Program, June 16, 1893
Text
1893-06-16
16 cm x 22 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31093.JPG
Schools:High School
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1893-06-16
oai:mainememory.net:31724
2023-03-12T08:30:15Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Alger Hall, the meeting place of the Good Templars temperance society in Scarborough, around 1925.
"The prohibition society [the Good Templars] was strong in Maine. The Templars' national leader, Neal Dow, was a Portland native. In Scarborough, the Templars' erected a meeting hall in Dunstan Village. It was located where the Soldiers Monument now stands. Eventually the building was moved further south on Route 1. Today, it is the Governor William King Lodge of the Masons."
From em>Images of America: Scarborough in the Twentieth Century</em> by Rodney Laughton.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31724
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Freemasons--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Prohibition--Maine--Scarborough
Independent Order of Good Templars
Fraternal lodges--Maine--Scarborough
International Organization of Good Templars
Temperance--Maine--Scarborough
Alger,
Dow, Neal
Alger Hall, Scarborough, ca. 1925
Image
circa 1925
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31724.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1925
oai:mainememory.net:31710
2023-03-12T08:30:16Z
contributor:scarhs
Smallpox,a potentially fatal infection was known to be spread by air not water so during times of potential outbreaks public meetings were banned by health officials. This poster was a formal notice of such. Vaccinations were done at the expense of the town. This poster was from 1902 and the cost to the town was recorded in the Town Report of 1903 for the previous year.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31710
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Smallpox--Maine--Scarborough
Broadsides--Maine--Scarborough
Vaccinations--Maine--Scarborough--1900-1910
Knight, T. H.
Larrabee, J. S.
Milliken, M. I.
Milliken, O. F.
Seavey, B. F.
Wentworth M.D., B. F.
Notice about Vaccinations, Scarborough, 1902-1903
Text
circa 1902
20 cm x 25.8 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31710.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1902
oai:mainememory.net:100265
2023-03-12T08:35:37Z
contributor:scarhs
Noah Pillsbury married Harriet Hannaford on December 8, 1864 in Portland. They are shown here about 1910.
Noah was born on January 11, 1838 in Scarborough. A veteran of the Civil War, Noah served in Company E of the 25th Maine Infantry for nine months. When he enlisted on September 29, 1862, Noah was described as being five-feet-five-inches tall with a light complexion, hazel eyes, and brown hair. Noah mustered out of the service on July 10, 1863 with a medical disability.
Noah held a couple of very interesting jobs later in his life. Around 1900, he was the last toll collector on the Cumberland Turnpike, which crossed the Scarborough marsh from Oak Hill to Dunstan. In 1903 Noah was appointed the first Rural Free Delivery (RFD) carrier in Scarborough, and he delivered mail by horse and buggy in West Scarborough until his death.
Noah Pillsbury died on February 1, 1919 and is buried in the Dunstan Cemetery in Scarborough.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100265
02.68.1a
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 25th (1862-1863). Company E
Military service, Voluntary
Older veterans--United States
Veterans--Civil War
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military service--1860-1870
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Pillsbury, Harriett
Pillsbury, Noah D
Noah and Harriet Pillsbury, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
13.41 cm x 9.65 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100265.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:100451
2023-03-12T08:35:38Z
contributor:scarhs
Horace Moore was born in Biddeford, on October 17, 1844 to Jeremiah and Mary Ann Brown Moore. At the time of his enlistment to serve in the Civil War, he was five foot eleven inches tall with blue eyes and dark hair and worked as a shoemaker.
Moore originally enlisted on November 15, 1861 in the 12th Maine Infantry, Company C, at Cape Elizabeth. Both family and government records indicate that Moore deserted and reenlisted under several names during the Civil War. On October 22, 1868, he enlisted once more in the 3rd Artillery, Company M, at Fort Preble in Portland. He served until being mustered out on October 22, 1871 while stationed in Fort Jefferson, Florida.
Moore married Annie M. Davis on April 17, 1901. He died in Scarborough on March 19, 1909, age 64, of pulmonary tuberculosis, and is buried in the Veterans Cemetery in Togus.
Tintype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100451
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Military service--1860-1870
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Veterans--Civil War
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Davis, Annie M.
Moore, Horace W.
Moore, Jeremiah
Moore, Mary Ann Brown
Horace W. Moore, Scarborough, 1863
Image
circa 1863
8.57 cm x 6.99 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100451.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1863
oai:mainememory.net:100452
2023-03-12T08:35:38Z
contributor:scarhs
Sumner Cummings Libby, on left, was born on November 18, 1844. Conflicting records show he was born in either Scarborough or Cape Elizabeth. His parents were Levi and Sarah Ann Libby. The 1860 US Census shows his family was living in Cape Elizabeth.
Sumner Libby enlisted in the 12th Maine Infantry, Company C, on November 15, 1861, three days shy of his 17th birthday. He served with his regiment during the Civil War in Louisiana and Virginia.
Libby was captured during one of the battles in Virginia and sent to Salisbury Prison in Rowan, North Carolina. Sumner died there on December 30, 1864. His body was shipped home to his parents and he was buried at Browns Hill Cemetery in South Portland.
Tintype
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100452
69.19.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Military service--1860-1870
Prisoners of war
Scarborough (Me.)--History
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Soldiers--Maine
Portraits--Maine--Scarborough
Libby, Levi
Libby, Sarah Ann
Libby, Sumner Cummings
Sumner Cummings Libby, Scarborough, 1863
Image
circa 1863
6.99 cm x 6.35 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100452.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1863
oai:mainememory.net:100454
2023-03-12T08:35:38Z
contributor:scarhs
Photo by Tisdale
Zebulon Knight was born in Scarborough on October 3, 1845. He worked as a carpenter, and late in the Civil War, on Sept. 9, 1864, Zebulon enlisted in the 12th Maine Infantry, Company C, and served in the Virginia campaigns until his honorable discharge on July 22, 1865 in Savannah, Georgia.
After the war, Zebulon became a minister, working in South Berwick and North Saco.
Knight married Sarah Norman in August 1868. After Sarah's death, he married Susan Allen; after Susan's death, Knight was married a third time to Ida Adams.
Zebulon Knight died January 13, 1924 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in South Berwick.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100454
02.77.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Veterans--Civil War
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
Knight, Ida
Knight, Zebulon
Zebulon and Ida Knight, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
35.56 cm x 30.48 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100454.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:100456
2023-03-12T08:35:38Z
contributor:scarhs
Daniel H. Merrill was born in January 1846 in Scarborough to William T. and Olive J. Goodwin Merrill. He married twice, first to Anna B. Merrill and after her death, to Annie D. Leavitt on June 3, 1900 in Saco. At that time Merrill was a farmer in Saco. Daniel Merrill died July 28, 1936 and is buried in Scarborough's Dunstan Cemetery.
Merrill enlisted in the Civil War on October 10, 1864 with the Maine 7th Light Artillery Battery, organized in Augusta. The battery saw action in many battles, including The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg. Merrill and his battery were mustered out on June 21, 1865.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100456
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Soldiers--Maine
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military service--1860-1870
Veterans--Civil War
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1864)
Goodwin, Olive J
Leavitt, Annie D
Merrill, Ana B
Merrill, Daniel H
Merrill, Olive J
Merrill, William T
Daniel H. Merrill, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
7.62 cm x 5.08 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100456.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:100464
2023-03-12T08:35:38Z
contributor:scarhs
George Merrill was born in Saco in 1844. In 1862, when he enlisted to fight in the Civil War, he was five-foot-ten-inches tall, with hazel eyes and light hair, was single, and worked as a farmer.
Merrill enlisted in Augusta, in the 16th Maine Infantry, Company F, for three years. This regiment saw action for the first time at Fredericksburg, Virginia, when General Ambrose Burnside and the Army of the Potomac attacked General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia.
The 16th Maine was part of General John Gibbon's Division, which was on the Union left facing General Stonewall Jackson's Corps. They crossed the Rappahannock River on Saturday, December 13, 1862. The 16th Maine acquitted itself well in their first battle, breaking through the outer defense line of the Confederate Army. However, they had to retire when no support was given them.
The regiment suffered high casualties during that charge. One of those killed was George Merrill.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100464
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Military service--1860-1870
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 16th (1862-1865)
Burnside, Ambrose
Gibbons, John
Jackson, Stonewall
Lee, Robert E.
Merrill, George
George Merrill, Scarborough, ca. 1863
Image
circa 1863
17.78 cm x 12.70 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100464.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1863
oai:mainememory.net:100280
2023-03-12T08:35:39Z
contributor:scarhs
On October 19, 1861, at the age of 18, Hiram Berry enlisted as a private in the Co. C of the 12th Maine Infantry. This document acknowledges Berry's receipt of $200 for enlisting on the quota of the town of Scarborough.
Johnson Libby signed with receipt, with Horatio Hight and Freedom Milliken, who were fellow Scarborough volunteers, witnessing the signing.
After serving three years with his regiment and taking part in many Civil War battles, Berry was mustered out on March 14, 1864 at Camp Parapet, Louisiana. He re-enlisted immediately in the same company and regiment serving until he was discharged on April 18, 1866 in Savannah, Georgia.
Hiram Berry was born on August 15, 1843 in Scarborough to Ruth Berry. After the war, Berry became a carpenter and farmer. He married Edith May Storey on September 28, 1895 in Gorham. Hiram was was 53 and Edith was 21. They had 10 children and he loved growing roses. Berry died in Scarborough on January 8, 1915 and is buried in Dunstan Cemetery.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100280
1968.51.88
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Berry, Hiram
Hight, Horatio
Libby, Johnson
Milliken, Freedom
Storey, Edith May
Hiram Berry enlistment receipt, Scarborough, 1864
Text
1864-04-27
11.02 cm x 19.15 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100280.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1864-02-01
oai:mainememory.net:100447
2023-03-12T08:35:40Z
contributor:scarhs
L. N. Rosenthal
The 25th Maine Infantry Regiment was stationed at Camp Seward, Arlington Heights, Virginia, on November 4, 1862. Camp Seward was an entry point into the Civil War for most Union soldiers.
The print is one of many that Rosenthal's Lith., a printing company in Philadelphia. made of Civil War encampments. This one is signed L. N. Rosenthal. Louis was one of four brothers in the company. They were pioneers in chromolithograph printing. Soldiers probably could buy prints that showed their regiment.
The camp, located across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., provided defense fortifications for the city during the war. Camp Seward was named for William Seward, Lincoln's Secretary of State and former rival for the presidency. Seward was also a former governor of New York.
Scarborough had 18 volunteers in the 25th Maine Infantry. They were: Robert Brackett, William Cook, Enos Dolley, Alpheus Fogg, Simeon Foye, James Hanson, Alexander Higgins, Franklin Libby, John McCain, Eleazer Merserve, Edwin Moody, Samuel Moore, David Newcomb, Joseph Newcomb, Noah Pillsbury, Charles Rounds, William Stevens, and George Tripp.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100447
1986-8-1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Veterans--Civil War
Soldiers--Maine
Military service--1860-1870
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 25th (1862-1863)
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Brackett, Robert
Cook, William
Dolley, Enos
Fessenden, Francis
Fogg, Alpheus
Foye, Simeon
Hanson, James
Higgins, Alexander
Libby , Franklin
McCain, John
Merserve, Eleazer
Moody, Edwin
Moore, Samuel
Newcomb, David
Newcomb, Joseph
Pillsbury, Noah
Rounds, Charles
Seward, William
Stevens, William
Tripp, George
Camp Seward, Arlington Heights, Virginia, 1862
Text and Image
1862
27.94 cm x 20.32 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100447.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Arlington Heights, Arlington County, VA, USA
1862
oai:mainememory.net:100449
2023-03-12T08:35:40Z
contributor:scarhs
Town of Scarborough
This document, written by selectmen James Gunnison and Richard Leavitt to Constable Freedom Milliken, notifies citizens of Scarboro (the historic spelling of "Scarborough") about an upcoming town meeting. Maine towns that have a town meeting form of government are required to post this type of notice in advance of meetings to notify voters of the agenda.
This document cites two articles that need to be resolved at the meeting: the choosing of a moderator and the amount of funds to raise to support families of soldiers volunteering from Scarboro to fight in the Civil War. It is dated October 21, 1861, six months after the Civil War began at Fort Sumpter in Charleston, South Carolina.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100449
65.51.24
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Town meetings--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Soldiers--Maine
Military service--1860-1870
Gunnison, James
Leavitt, Richard
Milliken, Freedom
Town meeting notice, Scarborough, 1861
Text
1861-10-29
27.94 cm x 21.59 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100449.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1861-10-29
oai:mainememory.net:100450
2023-03-12T08:35:40Z
contributor:scarhs
Town of Scarborough
This Civil War era town warrant notification, written by Freedom Milliken, notifies Scarboro (the historic spelling of "Scarborough") citizens of an upcoming town meeting.
The notification states that this document was posted seven days prior to said meeting in the stores of Freedom Milliken, Joseph Sherman, and John Higgins. It tells the citizens that the town meeting will be held on Oct 29th, 1861.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100450
65.51.24
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service--1860-1870
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
Town meetings--Maine--Scarborough
Fort Sumpter (Charleston, S.C.)
Higgins, John
Milliken, Freedom
Sherman, Joseph
Town Warrant, Scarborough, 1861
Text
1861-10-29
27.94 cm x 21.59 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100450.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1861-10-29
oai:mainememory.net:100453
2023-03-12T08:35:40Z
contributor:scarhs
Adjutant General's Office, State of Maine
This discharge document, dated October 1882 states that Horace W. Moore served in the Civil War as a private in Co. C of the 12th Maine Infantry. He enlisted in 1864 and was honorably discharged at Albany, New York, in 1866.
Moore was born in Biddeford, on October 17, 1844 to Jeremiah and Mary Ann Brown Moore. At the time of enlistment, he was 5-feet, 11 inches tall with blue eyes and dark hair and worked as a shoemaker.
He enlisted for the first time on November 15, 1861 in the 12th Maine Infantry at Cape Elizabeth. Both family history and government records indicate that Horace deserted and reenlisted under several different names during the war. On October 22, 1868, he enlisted in the 3rd Artillery, Co. M, at Fort Preble in Portland. He served until being mustered out on October 22, 1871 while in Fort Jefferson, Florida.
Moore married Annie M. Davis on April 17, 1901. He died in Scarborough on March 19, 1909 of pulmonary tuberculosis and is buried at the Veterans Cemetery in Togus.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100453
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Soldiers--Maine
Military service, Voluntary
Military service--1860-1870
Military service, Voluntary
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Scarborough (Me.)--History
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Military discharge--Maine
Beal, George L
Davis, Annie M
Moore, Horace W
Moore, Jeremiah
Moore, Mary Ann Brown
Horace W. Moore discharge, Scarborough, 1882
Text
1882-10-27
27.94 cm x 21.59 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/100453.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1882-10-27
oai:mainememory.net:100767
2023-03-12T08:35:41Z
contributor:scarhs
George W. Pillsbury was stationed in Louisiana with the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, Company C during the Civil War.
George Pillsbury was born in Scarborough on November 17, 1834. He was the second child of eight of Charles and Eunice Waterhouse Pillsbury. The Pillsbury farm was located on the Beech Ridge Road and bordered the Dunstan River. The Pillsbury family attended the West Scarborough Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1856, George Pillsbury married Statira Staples of Limington. She had come to Scarborough to teach school.
Pillsbury enlisted in the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, Company C, which mustered in Portland on November 16, 1861. Enlisting along with him were his brother, Edward, and a neighbor, Melville Milliken, who would later become George Pillsbury's brother-in-law. While the 12th Maine was stationed in Louisiana, George contracted malaria. In 1864, he was discharged due to illness and sent home.
While George Pillsbury served in the Civil War, his family lived in Dunstan. The family hired a young neighbor, Hiram Berry, to help around the home. One day, when sent for water, Berry met a Union recruiter and was enticed to enlist. Berry never returned with the water, but went to war instead as one of Scarborough's volunteers.
After recuperating, George Pillsbury bought a farm on Mitchell Hill Road. He farmed and did carpentry work, making a comfortable living. He and his wife had eight children. George died of kidney failure on November 3, 1887. The malaria he contracted in the south was the leading contributor to his death, which at that time was called Bright's Disease.
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Military service--1860-1870
Military service, Voluntary
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Veterans--Civil War
Berry, Hiram
Pillsbury, Charles
Pillsbury, Edward
Pillsbury, George W
Staples, Statira
Waterhouse, Eunice
George Washington Pillsbury, Louisiana, ca. 1863
Image
circa 1863
15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1863
oai:mainememory.net:100768
2023-03-12T08:35:41Z
contributor:scarhs
Melville Milliken of Scarborough, a Civil War veteran, is show surrounded by his children, standing from left, Calista, Eloise, Oliver, and Edna; and seated, from left, Carl and Emmeline. Civil War veteran Melville Ira Milliken served as a sergeant in the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment, Company C.
Milliken was born on September 29, 1837 to Ira and Ruth Googins Milliken in Scarborough. He enlisted as a corporal in Co. C of the 12th Maine on November 11, 1861, when he was 24 years old and single. After serving his three-year enlistment, he re-enlisted on March 5, 1864, receiving a bounty of $200. He was then stationed in Savannah, Georgia, as provost marshal for the next five years.
In 1871, Milliken married a retired school teacher, Martha A. Pillsbury. The 1880 U.S. census indicates Melville Milliken was a farmer in Scarborough. His wife, Martha, was born in Scarborough in 1843. She died, March 14, 1887 of pneumonia one month after giving birth to her seventh child.
The 1920 census shows Millikin living with his son's family in Scarborough. He died the next year on December 11, 1921 at the age of 84.
Photographic print
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Scarborough (Me.)--History
Military service--1860-1870
Military service, Voluntary Recruiting & enlistment--Maine--Scarborough
Group portraits--Maine--Scarborough
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1862-1865)
Veterans--Civil War
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Googins, Ruth
Milliken, Calista
Milliken, Carl
Milliken, Edna
Milliken, Eloise
Milliken, Emmeline
Milliken, Ira
Milliken, Melville
Milliken, Oliver
Pillsbury, Martha A.
Melville Milliken and children, Scarborough, 1891
Image
1891
10.16 cm x 15.24 cm
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1891
oai:mainememory.net:100591
2023-03-12T08:35:42Z
contributor:scarhs
Clara A. Moses wrote to her friend Pvt. Gardner J. Waterhouse, who was serving in Co. G of the 7th Maine Regiment during the Civil War. Moses discussed other friends who have joined the army, as well as friends who remained at home in Scarborough.
Moses told Waterhouse to be careful with whom he associated because there are were great many "bad fellows" serving with him. She also cautioned him to save his money so he could buy a farm, if he desired, upon his return home from the war. Clara also told Gardner that she was his friend and hoped he would write her, and then visit upon returning home.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/100591
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Scarborough (Me.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Harmon, Irving
Harmon, Joe
Harmon, Lon
Libby, Joe White
Merrill, Cornelia
Merrill, Henry
Moses, Clara A.
Moses, Varney Simon
Waterhouse, Gardner J.
Clara Moses letter to soldier, Scarborough, ca. 1862
Text
circa 1862
15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1862
oai:mainememory.net:101034
2023-03-12T08:35:45Z
contributor:scarhs
Melville Milliken
Melville Milliken, who enlisted in Co. C of the 12th Maine Regiment as a corporal on Nov, 15, 1861, wrote to his parents in Scarborough during his service in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
On January 15, 1863, Melville wrote of a box sent home via Lt. Edward Pillsbury. He discussed the process of government officials inspecting the box, and how they rearranged the contents. He also described the contents, including several letters.
Later in 1863, he was promoted to sergeant.
He mentioned that Horatio Hight, who had been 1st lieutenant of Co. C but resigned shortly before this letter was written, would be delivering more letters home, and told his folks what to do with the letters if he should die during the war.
He also told his parents that he had a picture taken and wanted to look "saveage."
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/101034
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Military service--1860-1870
Maine--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Soldiers--Maine
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1862-1865)
Scarborough (Me.)--History
United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 12th (1861-1864)
Milliken, Melville--correspondence
Hight, Horatio
Milliken, Melville
Pillsbury, Edward
Cpl. Milliken letter to parents, Louisiana, 1863
Text
1863-01-15
15.24 cm x 10.16 cm
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1863-01-15
oai:mainememory.net:29355
2023-07-14T08:36:46Z
contributor:scarhs
oai:mainememory.net:29047
2024-02-24T09:28:45Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
The Richard King house was built at Dunstan Landing ca. 1750. Richard was the father of William King, Maine's first governor, and Rufus King, one of the signers of the Constitution.
The center section of the house, which is attached to the barn, is part of the original homestead. The house was torn down ca. 1910 and another home built on the site.
Richard King was a wealthy merchant who played a major role in the town's economic development. He owned 3,000 acres of land and a sawmill that provided lumber for ship building and export. He was also a store keeper who extended credit and loaned money before banks were established in the area.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29047
89.9
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King, Richard--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scarborough
King, William--Birthplace
Governors--Maine
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
King, William, 1768-1852--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scarborough
King, Richard
King, Rufus
King , William
Richard King House, Dunstan Landing, Scarborough, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
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Richard King
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan Landing, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1930
oai:mainememory.net:29348
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
The Den Danske Landsby or Danish Village was the forerunner of motels in America. This building was set back amongst the trees on Route 1 for travelers during the 1930s.
The Danish Village motel was designed after the Denmark village of Ribe. The village was quite successful during the 1930s, appealing to the well-to-do motoring public. Gasoline and rubber shortages during World War Two led to less traveling and its eventual demise.
The United States government leased the buildings during the World War II so the shipyard workers could live there.
Portland hotel man Henry P. Rines and Boston architect Peter Holdensen were responsible for building the village.
In 1927 Rines had spent $2 million on the construction of the Eastland Hotel in Portland that adjoined the Congress Street Hotel built by his father.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29348
00.61
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Motels--Maine--Scarborough
Lodging houses--Maine--Scarborough
Labor housing--Maine--Scarborough
Holdensen, Peter
Rines, Henry P.
Danish Village, Scarborough, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
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Businesses, Hotels and Motels
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Danish Village, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Ribe, Denmark
circa 1930
oai:mainememory.net:29350
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Ralph K. Bennett(on the right) and Roger Bennett Sr. are standing outside an automobile garage they operated. The business was later owned by Otis Lilly. The Scarborough Police, Fire and Rescue now occupy a new building that built on this site.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29350
90.24.1
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Automobiles--1920-1930--Maine--Scarborough
Automobile service stations--Maine--Scarborough
Trucks--1920-1930--Maine--Scarborough
Bennett, Ralph K.
Bennett, Roger
Lilly, Otis
Oak Hill Garage, Scarborough, 1922
Image
1922
11.5 cm x 16.6 cm
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Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1922
oai:mainememory.net:29351
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
The Portland Flying Service was located at the Port of Maine Airport, which was a privately owned air field on Pleasant Hill Road near Route 1, the site of the former Sagadahoc Dairy Farm. Small planes could be stored, repaired and chartered at this field. This venture was started after World War Two by Harold Troxwell and operated until the 1960s.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29351
00.216
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Aeronautics, Commercial--Chartering--Maine--Scarborough
Airports--Maine--Scarborough
Vehicle maintenance & repair--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Air pilots--Maine--Scarborough
Lease & rental services--Maine--Scarborough
Hangars--Maine--Scarborough
Troxwell, Harold
Portland Flying Service, Scarborough, ca. 1946
Image
circa 1946
17.9 cm x 25.6 cm
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Transportation
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pleasant Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1946
oai:mainememory.net:29357
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This historical marker is one of a series of markers depicting Black Point history. This is located across from 534 Black Point Road, Scarborough. "The stone marks the area where the first Scarborough garrison was built. Joshua Scottow, who owned a great deal of the town, built the fortification to defend his interests. In October 1676 while Scottow was in Boston, Mogg Heigon and other Indians took the fort without firing a shot. The fort was ransacked but not destroyed. Scottow and the other townspeople returned, and the following May, Mogg again besieged the fort. One of the garrisoned men was captured and tortured; three others were shot and killed. On May 16 Mogg met his end, shot by Lieutenant Tippen of Boston. The siege was broken."
The above quotation was taken from the book "Scarborough at 350: Linking the Past to the Present" edited by Susan Dudley Gold. This marker stone was laid in 1931.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29357
89.9.1854
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King Philip's War, 1675-1676--Campaigns
Scottow, Joshua, 1618-1698
Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Forts & fortifications--Maine--Scarborough
Historical markers--Maine--Scarborough
Indians of North America--Maine
Heigon, Mogg, d. 1677
Heigon, Mogg
Scottow, Joshua
Tippen,
Garrison Cove Marker on Black Point Road in Scarborough
Image
1676
7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
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Historical Markers
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1676
oai:mainememory.net:29383
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
At the time of this photograph Black Point Road was rutted and unpaved. In this snowy winter scene a horse is pulling a wagon heading in the direction of Prout's Neck. The house is in the center is still standing. For many years it was the residence of Charles F. Walker, Station Agent for the Boston and Maine Railroad. The station was a short walk from his house.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29383
70.24.2C
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Dirt roads--Maine--Scarborough
Black Point Road (Scarborough, Me.)
Sleds & sleighs--Maine--Scarborough
Walker, Charles F.
Black Point Road, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Areas of Scarborough
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29384
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Marion L. Leeman
This type of buckboard was typical for transportation in the 1880s-1890s. Leeman's Buckboard at Higgins Beach in Scarborough picked up passengers at the local train stations and took them to their hotels or summer homes.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29384
98.25.4
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Tourists--Maine--Scarborough
Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Carts & wagons--Maine--Scarborough
Passengers--Maine--Scarborough
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Leeman,
Leeman's Buckboard at Higgins Beach, Scarborough, ca. 1880
Image
circa 1880
18.4 cm x 24.7 cm
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Transportation
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:29385
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This building was the first store at Higgins Beach located on Ocean Avenue. The building also housed a bowling alley, barber shop and a restaurant. It burned around 1902 and another store was rebuilt at the same location.
In the photo standing are Ed Cole and Buck. Seated are Hiram Dyer and Ira Davies. Children unknown.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29385
98.25.3
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Barbershops--Maine--Scarborough
Bowling alleys--Maine--Scarborough
Buck,
Cole, Ed
Davies, Ira
Dyer, Hiram
Higgins Beach Grill or Buck's Restaurant, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
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Locale:Higgins Beach
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29386
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This coach was used to pick up people at Scarborough Beach Station and transport them to the hotels at Prouts Neck. The driver's name was Harris Seavey. The passengers are not identified but if you notice they had various tools in their hands. The tools are a chef's knife, a broadax, a bugle and a hoe. This could have been a Labor Day celebration from years ago.
This coach was built in 1879 by Abbott and Downing for the Farragut House in Rye Beach, New Hampshire. Harris Seavey bought it in 1900 and had it shipped to Scarborough. The coach named Tally-Ho was bottle green and had yellow wheels. The body was suspended on leather straps unlike other coaches of the day.
Photographic print
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Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Abbott,
Downing,
Seavey, Harris
Concord Coach, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Transportation
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29387
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This closed car trolley on route 1 is heading north towards Portland. Note the line of trees. The trolleys ran in Scarborough from 1903-1931. Service for Old Orchard Beach started on June 15, 1903. During the busy summer months the Old Orchard Line was the main line of the Saco division. The shuttle car connected at Dunstan Corner for Saco.
This line was a single track system running from South Portland to Saco and Old Orchard Beach. Many turnouts, which had to be maintained, were built to allow for the passing of cars. There were fifteen turnouts on this division alone. The turnouts in Scarborough were called: Sweeters, Oak Hill, Scottows, Southgate, Dunstan, and Bryant.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29387
97.51.10
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Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Electric railroads--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad cars--Maine--Scarborough
Passengers--Maine--Scarborough
Trolley at Dunstan, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
8.8 cm x 12.7 cm
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Transportation: Trolleys
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:29389
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
A line of vacation homes on Higgins Beach in Scarborough around 1890. "The earliest cottages, many of which are still standing, were built in a row running along the high ridge of the land that extends from the top of Pearl Street and runs into the direction of the Spurwink River. One of the earliest of these structures housed a daguerreotype salon (an early photography studio). Originally built as a wagon, it was hauled to the site, the wheels removed, and the structure anchored to the land. To this day the former wagon remains on the property, serving as the living room of a cottage known as White Caps. The ceiling of the living room is arched as it was in the days when it was a piece of rolling stock."
Taken from the book Scarborough at 350, edited by Susan Dudley Gold.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29389
93.27.44
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Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Vacation houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Cottages at Higgins Beach, Scarborough, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
15.2 cm x 21.5 cm
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Locale:Higgins Beach
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:29392
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Newcomb's store was located on Black Point Road near the Scarborough Beach(train) Station. This store was a place for locals to purchase items they could not produce themselves, such as molasses, sewing needles or fancy goods. The store also did a brisk business in summer time when tourists came to the hotels in Prouts Neck. The fare from Portland in 1909-1910 was a quarter which was about a dime more than the trolley fare from Portland to Oak Hill.
The wagon was lettered: Portland, Scarboro Beach and Prouts Neck Express. It is unknown if this was affiliated with the store.
Fred Newcomb was the Postmaster from Feb. 9,1899 until 1915, a period of sixteen years. He also served on several town boards. The store was also an official weighing station with a big drive on the platform out front.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29392
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Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Carts & wagons--Maine--Scarborough
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Newcomb, Fred M.
Fred M. Newcomb Store, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
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Businesses in Scarborough
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:29393
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
One of three observation posts used during the cold war in the 1950s in Scarborough. This building was behind the old State Police barracks heading north on Route 1, now the Parker Tilton Company. People would work in two or four hour shifts to watch for enemy aircraft then relay the information in code. The operation was under the Civil Defense.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29393
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Aerial observation (Military science)
Watchtowers--Maine--Scarborough
Cold War
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Maine. Civil Defense and Public Safety--Facilities
Observation towers--Maine--Scarborough
Dunstan Observation Post, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:29394
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
The Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth Fair was held at the Nutter family field at Pleasant Hill in Scarborough. The fair started about in 1875 and stopped in 1900. In the days before automobiles it was the only time of the year that women from various sections of town could meet. The men met at Town Meetings during the year.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29394
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Carts & wagons--Maine--Scarborough
Fairs--Maine--Scarborough
Agricultural exhibitions--Maine--Scarborough
Fairs--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Nutter,
Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth Fair, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Pleasant Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29395
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This rock formation is on the eastern side of Prouts Neck. Winslow Homer, who lived in Prouts Neck, made an oil painting of this scene and entitled it "High Cliff, Coast of Maine" in 1894. These stratified rocky cliffs arise from the water at a very steep angle high above the waves.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29395
63.31.10
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Coastlines--Maine--Scarborough
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
Artists--United States--Maine
Rock formations--Maine--Scarborough
Cliffs--Maine--Scaroborough
Homer, Winslow
Rocky Cliff at Prouts Neck, ca. 1940
Image
circa 1940
12.7 cm x 16.5 cm
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Locale:Prouts Neck
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1940
oai:mainememory.net:29396
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Harris Seavey's coach is in front of the Prouts Neck House, which was the first hotel built at the neck. It was also referred to as the Middle House.
The house was the residence of Thomas Libby. Later, it was cut in two sections and part of it moved. The portion that was moved became the V.T. Shaw's store and remained a seasonal store in 2012.
This coach was used in the play "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29396
05.37.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Stagecoaches--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Libby, Thomas
Seavey, Harris
Shaw, V. T.
Seavey's Stage Coach and Four, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
12.7 cm x 17.7 cm
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Mary Jane Cashman
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29397
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society
In 1842 trains came to Scarborough when the Eastern Railroad built a line linking Boston to Portland via Kittery and Saco. This is Scarborough Beach Station with train and railroad employees. The overpass and Grange are in the background. The men in the picture are not identified.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29397
70.24.2d
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Railroad stations--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad locomotives--Maine
Railroad employees--Maine--Scarborough
Eastern Railroad Company
Train at Scarborugh Beach Station, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1880
12.7 cm x 17.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29397.JPG
Louis Jordan Collection
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:29400
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Annie Moulton, wife of Alvin Moulton, ran this shore dinner house in the early 20th century. It was located on the family property between Broadturn Road and Payne Road. The original structure burned to the ground in 1911 and this was the replacement in 1912. The small building in front was a waiting room for the trolley that ran along Route 1. In time this property was sold to the Catholic Church and became an orphanage. Today it is privately owned and is home to a number of small businesses.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29400
64.19.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Orphanages--Maine--Scarborough
St. Louis Home for Boys (Scarborough, Me.)
Wayland House (Scarborough, Me.)
Moulton, Alvin
Moulton, Annie
Wayland House, Scarborough, ca. 1912
Image
circa 1912
21 cm x 25.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29400.JPG
Shore Dinners
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan Corner, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1912
oai:mainememory.net:29405
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contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
This post card depicts clam diggers at Pine Point. The Scarborough River estuary is well known for it's delicious clams. Early in the 20th century one of Burnham and Morrill's best selling products was Scarboro Beach Clam Chowder. It was served on railroad dining cars across the country.
The fishing boat on the right is a dory which was a popular style vessel 100 years ago.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29405
95.27.268
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Clamming--Maine--Scarborough
Dories (Boats)--Maine--Scarborough
Clam fisheries--Maine--Scarborough
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Clam Diggers at Fishermen's Cove, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
16 cm x 27 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29405.JPG
Clamming
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:29406
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This store and livery was located on Route 1 in Dunstan Corner, Scarborough. George W. Knight was the proprietor. The store sold groceries, dry goods, grains and hay. They also delivered their supplies. People could leave their horses and take the trolley to town. Mr. Knight was also the West Scarborough Postmaster for twenty three years. He died in the 1920's but his wife continued to run the store.
Frank Leary is standing by the wagon, James B. Leary is standing in front of the store, and is Frank Leary's father. Carrie Hanson Knight, George Knight's first wife, is also standing in front of the store. The other people in the photograph are not identified.
In the 1950's it became the IGA Dunstan Corner Market then an addition in the front became Murray's
Pharmacy. The complex burned in 1966.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29406
06.61.5
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Knight, George W.--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Postmasters--Maine--Scarborough
Stables--Maine--Scarborough
Knight, Carrie Hanson
Knight, George W.
Leary, Frank
Leary, James B.
G.W. Knight Store, Dunstan Corner, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
19.5 cm x 25 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29406.JPG
Business: Stores
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan Corner, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:29407
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
In July 1903 the four mile track from Old Orchard Beach to Dunstan was opened and run by the Portland Railroad Company. The track connected Old Orchard Beach with Portland and the large railroad stations. The iron trestle brought the electric cars over a broad expanse of the marsh, Foxwell's Brook, and the Eastern Railroad on the Old Blue Point Road. During the summer this line would run as often as every fifteen minutes. This ride provided a quieter and cooler ride than the trains.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29407
95.27.277
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Trestles--Maine--Scarborough
Railroads--Maine--Scarborough
Electric railroads--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad tracks--Maine--Scarborough
Marshes--Maine--Scarborough
Boston and Maine Railroad
Portland Railroad Company
Trestle over B & M on the Old Orchard Division, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
11 cm x 17 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29407.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1930
oai:mainememory.net:29410
2024-02-24T09:28:48Z
contributor:scarhs
This blacksmith shop was owned by John Plummer, but operated by Lawrence Googins. It was located on Highland Avenue not far from the Scarboro Beach Railroad Station. Each village in town had at least one blacksmith shop.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/29410
64.35.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Forge shops--Maine--Scarborough
Blacksmiths--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Googins, Lawrence
Plummer, John
Googins Blacksmith Shop, Scarborough, ca. 1880
Image
circa 1880
20 cm x 25 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/29410.JPG
Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:30898
2024-02-24T09:28:50Z
contributor:scarhs
This house was built between 1800 and 1805 by Dr. Robert Southgate. Dr. Southgate traveled from Leicester, Massachusetts, to Scarborough by horseback with all of his belongings in his saddlebag.
He was interested in law and medicine and practiced both at various times in his life. He married Mary King, the daughter of Richard King of Dunstan Landing, and they had twelve children. Southgate died in 1833 at the age of 92.
This house, which was built from bricks from local kilns, was still standing in 2010. The property is on the west side of Route 1 in Dunstan between Estabrooks Gardening Center and the Dunstan School Restaurant.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/30898
89.9
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Physicians--Maine--Scarborough
Judges--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Lawyers--Maine--Scarborough
King, Mary
Southgate, Robert
Southgate Mansion, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
12.7 cm x 17.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/30898.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:30899
2024-02-24T09:28:50Z
contributor:scarhs
Members of the 1921 Scarborough High School Track team include: (front row) Ross Sherwood, Captain Emmons, Thomas Seavey, and Clarence Peterson; (middle row) Aurthur Pillsbury, Clayton Sargent, Fred Skillings, and principal and coach Bessy; (back row) Clark Libby and Edgar Milliken. Elwood G. Bessy was
a coach, teacher and principal in Scarborough for 33 years beginning in 1918 and the Bessey High School (1927-1954) was named after him.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/30899
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Group portraits
Sports--Maine--Scarborough
Track athletics--Maine--Scarborough
Athletes--Maine--Scarborough
Bessey, Elwood G.
Emmons, Captain
Libby, Clark
Milliken, Edgar
Peterson, Clarence
Pillsbury, Arthur
Sargent, Clayton
Seavey, Thomas
Sherwood, Ross
Skillings, Fred
Scarborough High School Track Team, 1921
Image
1921
29 cm x 24 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/30899.JPG
Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1921
oai:mainememory.net:31090
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
The Scarborough High School graduating class of 1902 class picture includes, in the front, Susan Pillsbury, valedictorian, and Clifford H. Libby, salutatorian; and at rear, from left, Lulu Ormsby (Cook), James Lyons, and Lida Harmon (Milliken), historian.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31090
62.48.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Students--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough High School (Scarborough, Me.)--People
Group portraits
Graduation (School)
Harmon, Lida
Libby, Clifford H.
Lyons, James
Ormsby, Lulu
Pillsbury, Susan
Scarborough High School graduates 1902
Image
circa 1902
15.8 cm x 21.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31090.JPG
Schools:High School
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1902
oai:mainememory.net:31091
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Commonly called the White School, because of its color, this building was erected in 1905 at Oak Hill four corners. It was the first school specifically built for High School classes. Originally grammar school classes were held on the first floor and high school classes were held upstairs. There were four class rooms total. In 1927 the town opened a new high school, a mile south on Route One and this school became known as Oak Hill Primary School. It was eventually sold by the town and is now Arlberg Ski Shop.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31091
02.55.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
The White School, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
11.4 cm x 16.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31091.JPG
Schools:High School
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:31094
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
Baker's Garage started about 1915. This picture was taken in 1928 showing Chevy and Flint cars. The location is Pine Point Road by the rotary. Before the rotary was built this corner was called Baker's corner. The garage was replaced in 1947 by Conroy's Garage. With additions the garage is still in use today.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31094
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Automobile service stations--Maine--Scarborough
Baker,
Conroy,
Baker's Garage, Scarborough, 1928
Image
circa 1928
21.5 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31094.JPG
Locale:Pine Point
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1928
oai:mainememory.net:31118
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
The Boston and Maine Railroad stopped at the Scarboro Beach Station during the early 1900s bringing tourists to Maine. This new station was erected in the spring of 1909 after the old building was destroyed by fire in August of 1908.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31118
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Railroad stations--Maine--Scarborough
Boston and Maine Railroad
Scarboro Beach Railroad Station, 1909
Image
1909
10 cm x 13 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31118.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1909
oai:mainememory.net:31123
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
Buildings and road leading to Scarborough Beach in the late nineteenth century.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31123
97.51.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Roads--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Road leading to Scarboro Beach, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
7.62 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31123.JPG
Jan Makowski Collection
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:31125
2024-02-24T09:28:52Z
contributor:scarhs
J. O. Durgan
This home was built in 1760 for Abraham Leavit and his two daughters Earnestine and Louellen located in the Blue Point Village of Scarborough. The home was later purchased by Ambrose Lothrop. This photograph was part of a series of stereopticon images photographed by J. O. Durgan, landscape and portrait photographer from Old Orchard Beach.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31125
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Lothrop family
Leavit family
Leavit, Abraham--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scaroborough
Lothrop, Ambrose--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Leavit, Abraham
Leavit, Earnestine
Leavit, Louellen
Lothrop, Ambrose
Ambrose Lothrop Home, Scarborough, ca. 1870
Image
circa 1870
8 cm x 8 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31125.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1870
oai:mainememory.net:31273
2024-02-24T09:28:53Z
contributor:scarhs
Peter Batchelder
Looking west along the County Road at the junction of Saco street in 1907. The North Scarborough Free Church is shown on the left at the southwest corner of the intersection. This church was erected in 1871-1872 and dismantled in 1936. The O.E. Sherman store is visible on the right, along the north side of the County Road.
The building in the distance (left of center) and along the south side of the County Road is the home of Harry L. Sherman, brother of the store's owner, Orra E. Sherman. The home of a third brother, William Sherman, can be partially seen through the trees beyond the store. William Sherman was Scarborough's tax collector for many years.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31273
95.52.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Churches--Maine--Scarborough
Sherman, Harry L.
Sherman, Orra E.
Sherman, William
County Road and Saco Street, North Scarborough, 1907
Image
1907
12.7 cm x 17.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31273.JPG
Business: Stores
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
North Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1907
oai:mainememory.net:31337
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
By 1647, the Massachusetts Bay Colony Court passed a law requiring settlements in the colony to support a school if their numbers of settlers was one hundred or more. In 1751, the town raised money to support a school. By 1752, Mr. Roger Hunnewell was paid four shillings if his house could be used as a school. It continued to be a home for many years after, also.
This house is believed to be Scarborough's oldest dwelling. It was either built by Captain Hunnewell or one of his descendants (ca. 1600s - early 1700s). It had been moved to its present location on the Black Point Road, from across the road, as our nation celebrated the bicentennial of our country in 1976. The house is now kept up as one of the town's facilities. The Scarborough Garden Club maintains the flowers and keeps the outside looking well.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31337
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Hunnewell, Roger
Hunnewell House, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31337.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:31340
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
The First Blue Point School was constructed in 1853 and the last year of operation as a school was 1926. This structure still exists, but it is part of this house owned by Harold Snow. When building the house in the picture, Mr. Snow incorporated the school building he attended. The structure was purchased for $86.00.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31340
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Snow, Harold
First Blue Point School, Scarborough, ca. 1988
Image
circa 1988
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31340.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1980
oai:mainememory.net:31341
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This school was built by Earl Leary about 1923. It had two classrooms and a stage where the kindergarten students met. It served the Dunstan area until the 1940s when a larger building was needed. It was torn down in the 1980s after serving as the main building for The Red Shutter Cabins. The original location of this school was in what is now the parking lot of the Dunstan School Restaurant.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31341
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Leary, Earl
Dunstan School, Scarborough, ca. 1923
Image
circa 1923
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31341.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1923
oai:mainememory.net:31343
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
This school building is still located just west of the intersection of Holmes Road and Beech Ridge Road. It was discontinued in 1947. At that time it was sold to the Beech Ridge Association for $1.00.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31343
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Beech Ridge School, Scarborough, ca. 1947
Image
circa 1947
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31343.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
West Scarbrough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1947
oai:mainememory.net:31345
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
This original Oak Hill School was also called The Longfellow School by many older residents. This picture was taken the last day of school, June 23, 1905. It is now part of the Nickerson House located on Route 1 across the street from Hannaford Drive. It was replaced by the "white school" ( a combination of the first high school and grammar school).
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31345
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Original Oak Hill School, Scarborough, June 23, 1905
Image
1905-06-23
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31345.JPG
Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1905-06-23
oai:mainememory.net:31346
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
The former G.W.Knight store became the IGA Dunstan Corner Market in the 1950s run by Leland Cunningham and J. Thomas Pemberton. The square addition to the side replacing what was once the former barn became Murray's Pharmacy which had a soda and ice cream fountain. Coffee was available also. This establishment was run by Elwood C. Murray. In 1966 the entire complex burned to the ground including G.W.Knight's house next door.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31346
97.51.4
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Drugstores--Maine--Scarborough
Grocery stores--Maine--Scarborough
Post offices--Maine--Scarborough
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Cunningham, Leland
Knight, George W.
Murray, Elwood C.
Pemberton, J. Thomas
Murray's Pharmacy and Post Office, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
8.3 cm x 13.3 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31346.JPG
Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:31347
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
This school was originally located near O'Donal's Nursery on County Road and Gorham Road in 1875. It had been moved by the state as different road configurations required the land that it was on. That land and roadway changed over the years, and a small picnic area was developed there also. The actual building was sold and moved in 1961. Today only a small part of the building remains. The school was closed in 1958 and the children from that school were bussed to Eight Corners School in 1959. Both the former Coal Kiln School and Eight Corners School are located in North Scarborough.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31347
63.4.1
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
School children--Maine--Scarborough
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Coal Kiln School, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
20.3 cm x 15.2 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31347.JPG
Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
North Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:31361
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
"Parks Home Bakery was located on Route 1 in Dunstan near the Saco line. The restaurant and bakery were housed in a Quonset hut--one of the structures produced by the Navy during World War II in Quonset, Rhode Island, and sold as surplus after the war for about $1,000 each. The Quonset hut was removed long ago and a new building was erected on its site."
From Rodney Laughton's Book," Images of America, Scarborough in the Twentieth Century".
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31361
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Bakeries--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Quonset huts--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Park's Bakery and Restaurant, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
14.2 cm x 8.8 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31361.JPG
Restaurants
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:31362
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
Although a one room school, the second Blue Point Schoolhouse contained two stories, was dedicated in 1926 and was in operation until 1946. At that time, it was described as thoroughly modern having electric lights. It was discontinued in 1964. The building was torn down at the cost of $300.00. Today, the town property contains a small playground and tennis courts.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31362
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
The Second Blue Point School, Scarborough, ca. 1926
Image
circa 1926
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31362.JPG
Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1926
oai:mainememory.net:31363
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rebecca Delaware
The Oak Hill Grammar School was located on Black Point Road and contained four classrooms on the first floor and four more classrooms in the basement area. It was occupied in 1920 and by 1986 it became the school superintendent's office.
It is now occupied by an architectural firm.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31363
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Oak Hill Grammar, Scarborough, ca. 1990
Image
circa 1990
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31363.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1990
oai:mainememory.net:31367
2024-02-24T09:28:54Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The F.H.B. Heald School opened in 1955 as the high school for Scarborough. Mr. Heald had been Superintendent from 1913 to 1946. The Heald School replaced the old Scarborough high school, the Bessey School on Route 1.
The school has gone through several additions since it was first built. Today, the high school, middle school, and intermediate school are all located in Oak Hill on land that belonged to Dr. Benjamin Wentworth and his family.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31367
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Heald, F.H.B.--Commemoration--Maine--Scarborough
Heald, F. H.B.
Wentworth, Benjamin F.
F.H.B. Heald School, Scarborough, ca. 1958
Image
1958
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31367.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1958
oai:mainememory.net:31057
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contributor:scarhs
Poster used by Don Thurlow and other lobstermen as a way of advertising for their second job. The lobstermen would work at lobstering in the morning and take fishing parties out in the afternoon to supplement their income.
A few years later the Fishermen's Co-operative took over much of the scheduling of people who wanted to go on a fishing party. This was done on a rotation basis.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31057
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fishing--Maine--Scarborough
Deep-sea fisheries--Maine
Lobster fishers--Maine--Scarborough
Posters--Maine--Scarborough
Advertising
Advertisements
Thurlow, Don
Fishing Party Poster, Scarborough, ca. 1945
Text
circa 1945
27.9 cm x 35.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31057.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1945
oai:mainememory.net:31059
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contributor:scarhs
A type of spade with a wood handle and metal edge called a turf spade, used in Maine, ca. 1920. The spades varied in size. It's purpose is to cut sod (earth) blocks to make dike walls. The sod was passed from person to person using a three man team to the sod layer (dike builder). Ultimately the cut sod created a ditch allowing the water from the dike to flow into it. This turf spade was used by Otto Tibbett of Scarborough.
Wood, metal
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31059
08.47.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Shovels
Tools--Maine--Scarborough
Spades
Turf Spade, Scarborough, ca. 1850
Physical Object
circa 1850
13.9 cm x 114 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31059.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1850
oai:mainememory.net:31239
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contributor:scarhs
Seth Storer
Deed from Robert Southgate and Mary Southgate assigning land in Scarborough over to Samuel Coolbroth. The six acre parcel was located between land already owned by Coolbroth, land belonging to William King, George Hight and the Parsonage, on the County Rd. in the area of Dunstan, Scarborough.
Ink on paper
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31239
97.32.2
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Deeds--Maine--Scarborough
Landowners--Maine--Scarborough
Southgate, Robert, 1741-1833
Coolbroth, Rufus
Coolbroth, Samuel
Southgate, Mary King
Southgate, Mary R.
Southgate, Robert
Storer, Seth
Deed from Robert Southgate to Samuel Coolbroth, May 5, 1822
Text
1822-04-22
21.5 cm x 35.5 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31239.JPG
Cumberland County Deeds
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1822-04-22
oai:mainememory.net:31382
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contributor:scarhs
This was a District 1 school located on the Pleasant Hill Road and Fogg Road intersection. It operated from 1790 to 1940. It later became a shed at the Prouts Neck Country Club.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31382
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
School children--Maine--Scarborough
Group portraits
Beech Hill School, Scarborough, ca. 1879
Image
circa 1879
16.5 cm x 10.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31382.JPG
Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pleasant Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1879
oai:mainememory.net:31385
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This was the last Dunstan area school built, it was dedicated in 1944. This brick building replaced the smaller wooden one built in 1923. The school was built during the early years of World War II and was closed in the 1980s.
This beautiful federalist style building had four classrooms on each of the two floors, a library and principal's office. It was dedicated to the men and women who fought for our democracy. The structure cost $75,399.00 to build. Today it serves as The Dunstan School Restaurant with some additions. It is located on the corner of Payne Road and Route 1.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31385
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Dunstan School, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31385.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:31237
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contributor:scarhs
Moses Banks
Copy of the survey map Moses Bank made of the marshland in 1787. He had surveyed the land which would now be between Nonesuch and Scarborough Rivers. Because Route 1 did not exist at that time, his survey went as far north as the present day Payne Road. He presented it to Judge Southgate for approval. This survey was so well done that it later was put on the Registry of Deeds of Cumberland County once Maine became an independent state in 1820. It was helpful to the land owners who had property near the marsh. It clearly showed them whether or not their land included marsh land. This survey, nearly 80 years later, was used to help the owners of the various dike companies to know the location and owners of the various lots. This particular image was likely produced between 1850-1870.
Paper and ink
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31237
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Wetlands--Maine--Scarborough
Rivers--Maine
Maine--Maps
Scarborough (Me.)--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
Landowners--Maine--Scarborough
Cardinal points
Banks, Moses
Southgate, Robert
Moses Banks Map, Scarborough, 1787
Text and Image
circa 1850
58.4 cm x 91.4 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31237.JPG
Maps
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
The Marsh, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1787
oai:mainememory.net:31422
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contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
This building became the home of the Scarborough Historical Society and Museum in 1961. The site was originally built in 1911 as a generator house which provided power for the trolleys of the Portland Railroad Company. It was one of three buildings on this site to service trolleys. When the fire department and police department used the building it was controlled by the Alger Association.
In 1961 a concerned group of residents of the town bought it so important documents and artifacts of the town could stay in Scarborough and not be lost forever, thus started the Scarborough Historical Society. Renovations have been planned to maintain the historical character of the building. On March 22, 1991 the Museum was placed on The National Register of Historic Places.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31422
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Historical societies--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Portland Railroad Company
National Register of Historic Places
Railroads--Maine
Railroad facilities--Maine--Scarborough
Street railroad facilities--Maine--Scarborough
Electric railroads--Maine
Street railroads--Maine
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum Building, ca. 1964
Image
circa 1964
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31422.JPG
Locales: Dunstan
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1964
oai:mainememory.net:31430
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contributor:scarhs
John Thurlow
"Maine Egg Producers was a clearinghouse and packing plant for locally produced eggs. This plant was built in 1956 by A.S. Treworgy at 136 Route 1, near the Maine Medical Complex. The plant was state of the art when it opened. Eggs from area poultry houses moved on conveyor belts. They were graded and packed in a cooling room that was maintained at 50 degrees, a temperature that helped preserve freshness."
The above information from Rodney Laughton's book;" Images of America Scarborough in the Twentieth Century"
Today the building is home to Southern Maine Agency on Aging (SMAA) and other professional offices.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31430
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Food industry--Maine--Scarborough
Packing plants--Maine--Scarborough
Eggs--Maine
Aerial photographs
Treworgy, A. S.
Maine Egg Producers, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31430.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:31507
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contributor:scarhs
Don Googins
Pine Point Boatyard in Scarborough showing a boat with cabin in the foreground owned by Harold Snow who managed the Snow's Canning Company. Notice the gasoline pumps out front and the sign at the back. One could come up by boat or by car to get fuel.
These buildings were torn down and the Googins' Lobster Pound took that space.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31507
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Snow, Harold--Associated objects
Boats--Maine--Scarborough
Boat & ship industry--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Googins, Don
Snow, Fred
Snow, Harold
Pine Point Boatyard, Scarborough, 1928
Image
1928
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31507.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1928
oai:mainememory.net:31509
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contributor:scarhs
Don Googins
The boat, Miss Pine Point, is in a wooden cradle behind the boathouse at Pine Point. It was the first "fishing party" boat at that location. It principally went out deep sea fishing and/or tuna harpooning. The stand is shown on the bow. Repairs were conducted in the boat house for small boats, but large boats were worked on outdoors.
This boat was owned and operated by Perly Berry and Dominic Bonetti.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31509
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Boat & ship industry--Maine--Scarborough
Big game fishing--Maine--Scarborough
Miss Pine Point (Boat)
Berry, Perly
Bonetti, Dominic
Miss Pine Point, Scarborough, 1938
Image
circa 1938
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31509.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1938
oai:mainememory.net:31510
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contributor:scarhs
Don Googins
A.P. Normandin rowing his dory filled with lobster traps out in the Cove at Prouts Neck. Normandin often would be 2-3 miles out from the anchorage at Pine Point. The cove was called Garrison Cove but now it is referred to as "the one at the Prouts Neck Yacht Club."
In the background one can see the water tower at Blue Point.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31510
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Lobster traps--Maine
Lobsters--Maine
Lobster fishers--Maine--Scarborough
Dories (Boats--Maine
Water towers--Maine--Scarborough
Normandin, A. P.
A.P. Normandin lobster fisherman, Scarborough, ca. 1951
Image
circa 1951
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31510.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1951
oai:mainememory.net:31512
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contributor:scarhs
Donald Thurlow's lobster boat was built in 1943 at the Pillsbury Building in Pine Point by Ward Bickford. It was a pine strip and oak framed wooden boat with a gasoline engine. From the engine pulley a drive belt ran a winch to mechanically lift (haul) the traps. These boats turned sharply and to reset a trap, the boat made a circle and "dumped" it so that the rope would go over the lower rail and not snag the lobsterman. He would throw the glass bopper and wooden buoy overboard as the rope went out during the circle rotation.
The boat rest on a wooden cradle and has been hauled up to the summer parking lot for the winter.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31512
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Lobster fisheries--Maine--Scarborough
Lobster traps--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing industry--Maine--Scarborough
Equipment and supplies
Bickford, Ward
Thurlow, Donald
Donald Thurlow's lobster boat, Scarborough, 1943
Image
circa 1943
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31512.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1943
oai:mainememory.net:31583
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contributor:scarhs
Don Googins
Clam diggers at work in Pine Point ca. 1933. Notice the wooden clam basket. It allowed the digger to wash the sand and mud from the clams. Whereas clams were either sold by the measure (peck, bushel,etc.) or by actual weight, the dealer or person buying the clams did not want excessive volume or weight.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31583
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Clamming--Maine--Scarborough
Clamming--Equipment and supplies
Baskets--Maine--Scarborough
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Clam Diggers ca. 1933
Image
circa 1933
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31583.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1933
oai:mainememory.net:31586
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contributor:scarhs
The Scarborough anchorage seen from the original Fisherman's Co-operative around 1963. The original pier is to the right, where people had to climb down a ladder to reach their boats. Also shown are the dinghies, skiffs, and punts used to reach the boats in the harbor. The pilings in the center were put in during 1955 by Edward Bayley. Although Bayley had plans for a pier, nothing was built and the pilings were taken up in 2000. At low tide most of the pilings were on dry ground and boats could be hauled up to the parking lot, contained in a wooden cradle.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31586
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Harbors--Maine--Scarborough
Waterfronts--Maine--Scarborough
Piers & wharves--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Cooperatives--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough anchorage, ca. 1963
Image
circa 1963
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31586.JPG
Don Googins
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1963
oai:mainememory.net:31639
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
The Thurston and Bayley Company in Scarborough, primarily a wholesaler of clams and clam meats, was owned by Earle Thurston and Paul Bayley. The company delivered and picked up clams from customer's homes, spawning a cottage industry. The building was originally set next to the B&M railroad tracks, but in 1956 an overpass was built over the tracks, forcing the Thurston and Bayley building to move back several feet. When the station was discontinued around 1962, it was moved to the Thurston and Bayley plant and used as an addition. The station section was totally demolished in a fire in 1998. Seafood products are still processed there, but the owner is Stanley Bayley and it is named Bayley's Seafood Processing Plant.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31639
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Canneries--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Cottage industries--Maine--Scarborough
Clams--Maine--Scarborough
Bayley, Paul
Bayley, Stanley
Bayley, Steve
Thurston, Earle
Thurston and Bayley Company, Scarborough, 1948
Image
1948
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31639.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1948
oai:mainememory.net:31640
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contributor:scarhs
The Pine Point Station showing tourists and buggies around 1890. The Boston and Maine Railroad opened up Pine Point area of Scarborough to the tourist industry and helped change it from a relatively poor village to a tourist destination. The company had also paid for much of the roadway.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31640
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Carts & wagons--Maine--Scarborough
Tourists--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad stations--Maine--Scarborough
Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Boston and Maine Railroad
Tourism--Maine
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Pine Point RR Station, Scarborough, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31640.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:31641
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contributor:scarhs
C. W. Morris
View of Fisherman's Cove in Pine Point showing dories, larger punts, and pilings. The pilings are the only thing left that were part of the Burnham and Morrill Clam Plant.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31641
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Piers & wharves--Maine--Scarborough
Dories--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Boats--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Cabins--Maine--Scarborough
Cottages at Fisherman's Cove, Scarborough, ca. 1880
Image
circa 1880
8.8 cm x 13.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31641.JPG
Bill Bayley Collection
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1880
oai:mainememory.net:31642
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contributor:scarhs
Some of the fishermen at Pine Point in 1932. They are Will (Ike) Collins, Perly (Hick) Collins, Jack Turner, Albert Jordan, William Collins, and Herbert (Zeke) Collins. These fishermen were called by their nicknames whenever talking with other fishermen or village people.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31642
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fishers--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing--Maine--Scarborough
Collins, Herbert
Collins, Perly
Collins, Will
Collins, William
Jordan, Albert
Turner, Jack
Local Fishermen at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1932
Image
circa 1932
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31642.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1932
oai:mainememory.net:31643
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The "Washington B. Thomas" was a five-masted schooner. This type of ship was called a fore-and-after and they were extremely economical in that they could be handled with a smaller crew and could contain more cargo. This ship was built in Thomaston in 1903. It was "the largest wooden sailing ship ever wrecked on the Maine coast."
"A foggy and windy storm occurred and this ship, loaded with coal and bound for Portland, wrecked on Stratton island on June 14, 1903."
From Bruce Thurlow's article about the ship.
Slide
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31643
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Piers & wharves--Maine--Scarborough
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Ships--Maine
Washington B. Thomas (Ship)
Sailing ships--Maine
Wreck of the "Washington B. Thomas," Scarborough, ca. 1903
Image
circa 1903
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31643.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Stratton Island, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1903
oai:mainememory.net:31644
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contributor:scarhs
It was not unusual that in the 1920s airplanes used the beach for an airport. The packed sand at low water made a good landing strip. People like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh used the beaches.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31644
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Biplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Runways (Aeronautics)--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes on Beach, Scarborough, 1921
Image
circa 1921
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31644.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1921
oai:mainememory.net:31645
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
The loading dock at Bayley's Lobster Pound around 1948 where Dwight Underwood, state warden, shows the fisherman how to "v" notch a female lobster. Once found egg bearing, lobster fishermen were required to cut a V shaped notch in the lobster's middle tail and flubber. If caught again, without seeds, this lobster could not be taken.
Kneeling is Stephen Bayley, Haswell Turner, and Vance Turner.
First row are Albert Jordan and Dwight Underwood (State Warden).
Back row are Jack Turner, Bob Collins, Edward Bayley, and Roger Fogg.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31645
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fishery law and legislation--Maine
Lobster fishery--Law and legislation--Maine
Lobsters--Maine
Lobster fishers--Maine--Scarborough
Teaching--Maine--Scarborough
Game wardens--Maine
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Bayley, Edward
Bayley, Stephen
Collins, Bud
Fogg, Roger
Jordan, Albert
Turner, Haswell
Turner, Jack
Turner, Vance
Underwood, Dwight
Bayley's Lobster Pound, Scarborough, ca. 1948
Image
circa 1948
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31645.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1948
oai:mainememory.net:31646
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contributor:scarhs
The original Leavitt Brothers clam plant was on Pine Point Road. This plant was where the railroad overpass, on Pine Point Road, was built. This image shows barrels and bushels of clams. It was a unique set of buildings in that it had a clam plant on the bottom, a canning operation (soldering the cans) on the top floor, and a barber shop at the front.
Although it burned, part of it survived and the front of it is a house which exists today.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31646
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Barbershops--Maine--Scarborough
Clams--Maine--Scarborough
Canneries--Maine--Scarborough
Leavitt Brothers Clam Plant, Scarborough, ca. 1915
Image
circa 1915
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31646.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1915
oai:mainememory.net:31647
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
This section of Pine Point road is between the present Clambake Restaurant to Leavitt Brother's Plant. Note the wooden walkway for people to use located between the beach and the railroad station. The road is unpaved and shows the hill to Blue Point before the overpass was built. The marsh lands behind the station exist today, but as one goes south to Pine Point, the Clambake Restaurant and related buildings are located on what was marsh land.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31647
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Pine Point Road (Scarborough, Me.)
Dirt roads--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad stations--Maine--Scarborough
Wooden sidewalks--Maine--Scarborough
Pine Point Road, Scarborough, ca. 1907
Image
circa 1907
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31647.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1907
oai:mainememory.net:31648
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
This plant was built ca. 1885 as an earlier clam shop was destroyed by fire. This B&M plant employed about twenty eight people. "Shit Creek" was behind the B&M plant where privies rested near one of the creeks off of Jones Creek. Thus the name.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31648
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Group portraits
Burnham and Morrill Company
Employees
Canneries--Maine--Scarborough
Streams--Maine
Clams--Maine--Scarborough
Shellfish industry--Maine--Scarborough
Burnham and Morrill Clam Plant, Scarborough, ca. 1885
Image
circa 1885
20.3 cm x 27.9 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31648.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1885
oai:mainememory.net:31649
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
Winslow Pillsbury owned Pillsbury Inn at Pine Point, hunter cottages and marsh land in Scarborough. The eastern land of Pine Point was named Pillsbury Shores and has that name today.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31649
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Pillsbury, Winslow--Commemoration
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Pillsbury, Winslow
Winslow Pillsbury, Scarborough, ca. 1911
Image
circa 1911
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31649.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pillsbury Shores, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1911
oai:mainememory.net:31656
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
On August 10, 1897 this schooner was under full sail despite the near zero visibility. It contained 894 tons of hard and soft coal as it came up the coast from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Portland. Although attempts were made to save the ship, they were all futile. The schooner's crew's belongings and most of the cargo were taken to other ships. However, the <em>Howard W. Middleton</em> did wreck. Parts of the hull are visible at Higgins Beach. The amount exposed depends on the amount of beach sand from tides and ocean storms.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31656
Howard W. Middleton
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Howard H. Middleton (Schooner)
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Schooners--Maine--Scarborough
Ships--Maine--Scarborough
Storms--Maine
Howard W. Middleton shipwreck, Scarborough, August 10, 1897
Image
1897-08-10
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31656.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1897-08-10
oai:mainememory.net:31659
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contributor:scarhs
Bruce Thurlow
This is the <em>Cappy</em> right after coming ashore. It is nearly ready for the Coast Guard to haul it back to Pine Point. It had come across the Rocky Ledge in the Graveyard. The Graveyard is located between Higgins Beach and Scarborough Beach. Homes at Higgins Beach can be seen in the background and the Cape Elizabeth coastline is at the right of the picture. The people in the picture are not identified.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31659
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
United States. Coast Guard--Rescues
Rescues--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Shipwrecks--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Cappy (Boat)
The Cappy at Higgins Beach, Scarborough, 1951
Image
1951-07-23
8.89 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31659.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1951-07-23
oai:mainememory.net:31660
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contributor:scarhs
Bruce Thurlow
This shows the <em>Cappy</em> after it was wrecked coming ashore near Higgins Beach. It had been towed, with flotation barrels placed on each side, by the Coast Guard and is laying on its side at the Pine Point Anchorage. The damage to the haul is very visible.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31660
The Cappy
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Shipwrecks--Maine--Cape Elizabeth
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Rescues--Maine--Scarborough
United States. Coast Guard--Rescues
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Cappy (Boat)
The Cappy at Pine Point, Scarborough, 1951
Image
1951-07-23
8.89 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31660.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1951-07-23
oai:mainememory.net:31701
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contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Audubon Nature Center
State and Maine Audubon officials meeting in front of the pending Scarborough Audubon's Nature Center. They had been working toward an agreement that would allow the Nature Center to exist. The image shows the original two buildings which are still in use today. The buildings had been, initially, a roadside take out food establishment.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31701
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Maine Audubon Society
Meetings--Maine--Scarborough
Nature--Maine--Scarborough
Visitors' centers--Maine--Scarborough
Government officials--Maine
Museums--Maine--Scarborough
Audubon Nature Center, Scarborough, ca. 1972
Image
circa 1972
8.89 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31701.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1972
oai:mainememory.net:31707
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This poster promoted tourism and the popular destinations of the times for all the Summer Resorts along the Railroad's route in New Hampshire and Maine. The trains departed Boston several times daily at 8:30 a.m., 12:30, 3:30, and 6:00 p.m for Old Orchard Beach, Ocean Bluffs, Wells, Pine Point, and Scarborough Beaches. At one time the Boston and Maine Railroad maintained two lines through Scarborough.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31707
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Railroads--Maine
Resorts--Maine
Resorts--New Hampshire
Advertisements
Posters
Boston and Maine Railroad
Railroads--New Hampshire
Railroads--Massachusetts
Tourism--Maine
Flanders, D. J.
Furber, Jas. T.
Boston and Maine Railroad Poster, ca. 1890
Image
circa 1890
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31707.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
NH, USA
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Scarborough Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1890
oai:mainememory.net:31708
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Oak Hill Railroad Station was Scarborough's first. The Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth Railroad was a subsidiary of the Eastern Railroad Company. It began operations in 1842 and was Portland's first rail link to Boston, Massachusetts and points south. It joined the Boston and Maine Railroad at South Berwick.
In the picture to the left are William Peterson, his two children and their dog. He had recently purchased the store. The year is 1905. William Peterson had made an apartment on the second floor for his family to live. The second floor had previously been used for gatherings of all types. The grain store outlasted the railroad station by forty years.
Also in the picture is Station Master, Fred Walker and several unidentified workers.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31708
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Railroads stations--Maine--Scarborough
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Families--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad employees--Maine--Scarborough
Portland, Saco, and Portsmouth Rail Road Company
Dogs--Maine--Scarborough
Pets--Maine--Scarborough
Peterson, William
Walker, Fred
Oak Hill Railroad Station and Peterson's Grain Store, Scarborough, ca. 1905
Image
circa 1905
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31708.JPG
Transportation:Trains
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1905
oai:mainememory.net:31709
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Portland Railroad Company started trolley service through Scarborough in 1902. The business community took advantage of the transportation and the number of people passing through the town. Shore dinner restaurants with a specialty of lobster dinners appeared on Route 1. The open air cars were used during the summer to make it cooler and more appealing to the passengers. This car is pictured near Oak Hill.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31709
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Electric railroads--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad cars--Maine--Scarborough
Portland Railroad Company
Open Air Trolley, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31709.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:31712
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Ralph F. Blood
The <em>Sagamore</em> was a steel ship belonging to the Eastern Line Steamship Company. It was traveling from Portland, headed for New York, when a Northeast blizzard occurred on January 14, 1934. It ran onto Corwin Rock, some four miles off shore, and punctured a hole in the hull. It came ashore at Prout's Neck where the crew was saved as they were removed by the Coast Guard. The ship was carrying bolts of woolen cloth as part of its cargo.
Slide
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31712
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Storms--Maine--Scarborough
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Eastern Steamship Lines
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Sagamore (Ship)
Wreck of the Sagamore, January 14, 1934
Image
1934-01-14
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31712.JPG
Rodney Laughton
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1934-01-14
oai:mainememory.net:31713
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
John Wiggin of Scarborough lived with his cats in his three-room store, located across the street from the entrance to the Black Point Inn. He called his store "Hotel de Wiggin," poking fun at the upscale hotels in Prout's Neck. The store catered to summer residents, supplying items from ice cream to lobsters. You could also rent many items like dories, fishing poles, bicycles. The children loved him as he often entertained them by dancing and telling stories.
Before he opened his store he was the postmaster for Scarborough and also station master at Oak Hill railroad station. He died in 1904.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31713
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-CR/1.0/
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Wiggin, John P.
J.P. Wiggin, Scarborough, ca. 1895
Image
circa 1895
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31713.JPG
Rodney Laughton
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prout's Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1895
oai:mainememory.net:31714
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Taken at Scarborough Beach ca. 1905 with Prouts Neck in the background. The girls in the bow are identical twins.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31714
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Dories--Maine--Scarborough
Girls--Maine--Scarborough
Twins--Maine--Scarborough
Sisters--Maine--Scarborough
Boats--Maine--Scarborough
Dory with Twin Girls, Scarborough, ca. 1905
Image
circa 1905
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31714.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1905
oai:mainememory.net:31715
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
This outdoor theater opened in 1949 on Route 1 in back of where the current Sudsie Car Wash is located in the Oak Hill area.
The Baptist Church held services there from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s.
In 1968 a second screen was added but business eventually tapered off and the drive-in closed in 1986. Locally it was known as Sin City.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31715
96.26.11
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Billboards--Maine--Scarborough
Drive-in theaters--Maine--Scarborough
Signs (Notices)--Maine--Scarborough
Baptist churches--Maine--Scarborough
Portland Twin Drive-In, Scarborough, ca. 1969
Image
circa 1969
25.4 cm x 19.6 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31715.JPG
Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1969
oai:mainememory.net:31717
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This structure dates from the 1700s when it was used as a tavern, inn and stable for travelers. There was a large farm and mills on the site. Stuart's Brook, a tributary of the Scarborough River ran through the property. This structure is located on Route 1 in Scarborough just before Saco. This brick building replaced the original structure in 1815.
The tavern was originally owned by Captain Mulberry Milliken who was in the shipping industry with Richard King. Captain Benjamin Milliken took over the running of the tavern from his father. The tavern business began to diminish after 1840 when the railroad between Portland and Boston began running. The house was bought about 1875 by Silas Lary. The house is still owned by the Lary family.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31717
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Taverns (Inns)--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
King, Richard
Lary, Silas
Milliken, Benjamin
Milliken, Mulberry
Milliken's Tavern, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31717.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:31719
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contributor:scarhs
Roger Deering
A painting depicting Wackwarreska, Indian Jane's father. Wackawarreska was a Sagamore of Owascoag the Indian name for Scarborough. Indian Jane's mother was Nagasqua. Indian Jane was also referred to as Jane the Indian or Jane Hannup. Their family were the last Indians at Blue Point.
Jane and her brother sold 1000 acres of land to brothers Andrew and Arthur Alger. This is now the Dunstan area. They remained on their land which is now known as Eagle's Nest, once known as Jane's Point, located behind the current Blue Point School. Jane lived to be more than 100 years old.
Mural was done by Roger Deering during the 1920s, a local artist, for the lobby of the Atlantic House.
Painting, mural
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31719
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Indians of North America--Maine--Scarborough
Paintings--Maine--Scarborough
Atlantic House (Scarborough, Me.)
Murals--Maine--Scarborough
Nagasqua
Wackwarreska
Alger, Andrew
Alger, Arthur
Deering, Roger
Hannup, Jane
Wackwarreska, Scarborough, ca. 1651
Image
circa 1923
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31719.JPG
Murals of The Atlantic House
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1651
oai:mainememory.net:31721
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This beautiful Elm tree that once graced Dunstan Landing Road in Scarborough was known as the King Elm. It was on the property of the King family. It was lost to Dutch elm disease in 1960, despite every effort to save it. At the time the tree was removed it was six feet across and estimated to be 300 years old.
The millstone in the foreground honors William King, Maine's first governor.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31721
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King, William, 1768-1852--Commemoration
Dutch elm disease--Maine--Scarborough
American elm--Maine--Scarborough
Trees--Maine--Scarborough
Monuments--Maine--Scarborough
Elms--Maine--Scarborough
King, William
King Elm, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31721.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan Landing, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:31722
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
William Graffam is standing in front of his store which was in Dunstan area near the current location of the Soldiers' Monument. This store was started around 1888. In 1901 he raised the store and built the loading platform.
In the back of the store in the 1920s was a cast iron sink with a common dipping ladle that people could use for a cool drink of water. Also during the 1920s there was a peanut roaster in the middle of the store. The store was sold in 1926 to Asa Douglass.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31722
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Stores & shops--Maine--Scarborough
Douglass, Asa
Graffam, William H.
W.H. Graffam Store, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31722.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:31723
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Red Shutter Cabin (Old Dunstan School) and New Dunstan School, ca. 1950. The white building which is the main office for Red Shutter Cabins was the old Dunstan School built in 1923. The building had been moved and turned. The brick building in the background is the new Dunstan School built in 1944.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31723
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Schools--Maine--Scarborough
Cabins--Maine--Scarborough
School Buildings, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31723.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:31725
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Harry Kaler was born in Scarborough on June 17, 1877 and died December 23, 1918 during the flu epidemic. He married Estelle H. Libby on November 15, 1910 and was the older brother of Addie Kaler-Vaill. His father, John Kaler, built the Southgate Hotel around 1878, now known as the Black Point Inn. The hotel was named for Judge Robert Southgate, a physician, lawyer, judge, gentleman farmer and business man who owned property in the Prouts Neck area. The Kaler family sold the Southgate Hotel during the Great Depression.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31725
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Kaler, Harold--Portrait photographs
Kaler family
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Families--Maine--Scarborough
Kaler, Harold
Kaler , John
Kaler-Vaill, Addie
Libby, Estelle H.
Southgate, Robert
Harry Kaler, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Image
circa 1910
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31725.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1910
oai:mainememory.net:31726
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contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Helen Perley was the proprietor of the White Animal Farm, established in 1934, on Seavey's Landing Road. She was a self-taught woman who raised and bred mice and rats that were shipped all over the world. Research facilities used her rodents because of their health and purity.
Besides the mice and rats she also had gerbils, hamsters, birds, reptiles, and a variety of wildlife. She was known as a healer of animals and also a teacher.
People brought injured birds and animals to her for help.
Helen Perley gave tours of her farm and nature walks in the woods nearby. She also took animals to schools and nursing homes. During the 1950s and until the mid 1960s she was also a popular attraction at Old Orchard Beach.
She died in 1994 at age 90.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31726
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Animal breeders--Maine--Scarborough
Animal husbandry--Maine--Scarborough
Animal specialists--Maine--Scarborough
Animals--Maine--Scarborough
Farms--Maine--Scarborough
Rabbits--Maine--Scarborough
Teachers--Maine--Scarborough
Veterinary hospitals--Maine--Scarborough
Perley, Helen
Helen Perley, Scarborough, ca. 1985
Image
circa 1980
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31726.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1980
oai:mainememory.net:31727
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contributor:scarhs
The Fannie & Edith was a two masted schooner. It was built in Belfast, but came ashore at Prout's Neck in Scarborough on December 4, 1900. She was returning from Boston, Massachusetts headed for Bangor. On December 4, 1900 the schooner parted cables and was completely at the mercy of the waves and wind. Water had breached the breakwater at Richmond Island and the ship drifted west toward Prout's Neck. It was caught by a wave and landed on the rocks.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31727
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Schooners--Maine--Scarborough
Ships--Maine--Scarborough
Fannie & Edith (Schooner)
Storms--Maine
Fannie and Edith Shipwreck, Scarborough, December 4, 1900
Image
1900-12-04
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31727.JPG
Rodney Laughton
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1900-12-04
oai:mainememory.net:31728
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Robert Domingue
"George Seavey operated this fish market from 1923 until his death twenty years later. Located on Pine Point Road, the buildings were razed when the railroad overpass was constructed in the mid-1950s."
The above information taken from "Images of America Scarborough" by Rodney Laughton.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31728
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Fish trade--Maine--Scarborough
Seafood industry--Maine--Scarborough
Seafood stores--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Seavey, George T.
G. T. Seavey Sea Foods, Scarborough, ca. 1925
Image
circa 1925
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31728.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1925
oai:mainememory.net:31730
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
On August 10, 1897 the schooner <em>Howard H. Middleton</em> was under full sail despite near zero visibility. It contained 894 tons of hard and soft coal as it came up the coast from Philadelphia to Portland.
The ship hit a ledge off of Higgins Beach in Scarborough, damaging the hull. The crew's belongings and most of the cargo were taken to other ships but the <em>Howard H. Middleton</em> could not be saved. Parts of the hull are visible at Higgins Beach, shown here around 1970.
Slide, transparency
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31730
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Beaches--Maine--Scarborough
Howard H. Middleton (Schooner)
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Schooners--Maine--Scarborough
Ships--Maine--Scarborough
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Storms--Maine
"Howard H. Middleton" shipwreck, Scarborough, ca. 1970
Image
circa 1970
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31730.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Higgins Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1970
oai:mainememory.net:31735
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
P. E. Woodman
Haswell Skillings in buggy on King Street in Scarborough. His father ran a "taxi" service from the railroad station to the various inns at Pine Point. It was this type of buggy that began hired transportation from the station to the inns.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31735
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Carriages & coaches--Maine--Scarborough
Transportation--Maine--Scarborough
Dirt roads--Maine--Scarborough
Skillings, Haswell
King Street, Scarborough, ca. 1915
Image
circa 1915
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31735.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1915
oai:mainememory.net:31736
2024-02-24T09:28:58Z
contributor:scarhs
Bill Bayley
The Pine Point House being moved further back from the ocean as it had suffered damages from a storm in 1898. The storm eroded the beach and made it quite narrow. If the storm lasted longer or the high surf continued, Pine Point land would likely been divided. The Pine Point House was moved 100 feet north and, although under different owners, remained in business through most of the 1930s.
Photographic print
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31736
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Storms--Maine
Accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Moving of structures--Maine--Scarborough
Pine Point House, Scarborough, ca. 1898
Image
circa 1898
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31736.JPG
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1898
oai:mainememory.net:31580
2024-02-24T09:29:00Z
contributor:scarhs
This steel ship was an Eastern Line Steamship. It was traveling from Portland, headed for New York, when a Northeast blizzard occurred on January 14, 1934. It ran into Corwin rock some four miles off shore, and punctured a hole in the hull. It came ashore at Prout's Neck where the crew was saved as they were removed by the Coast Guard. The ship was carrying bolts of woolen cloth as part of the cargo.
Postcard
http://www.mainememory.net/item/31580
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Shipwrecks--Maine--Scarborough
Storms--Maine--Scarborough
Sagamore (Ship)
Marine accidents--Maine--Scarborough
Eastern Steamship Lines
Wreck of the Sagamore, Scarborough, 1934
Text and Image
1934
7.6 cm x 12.7 cm
http://media.mainememory.net/images/150/75/31580.JPG
Locales:Prouts Neck
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1934-01-14
oai:mainememory.net:31706
2024-02-24T09:29:00Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
This car belonged to John Meeker, a summer guest at the Atlantic House at Scarborough Beach. It is a 1903 Ford.
This car is an example of the effects of transportation in the community, because car traffic required better roads, the roads were improved. New businesses appeared including restaurants, hotels, and other lodging facilities.
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Vacations--Maine--Scarborough
Tourism--Maine--Scarborough
Automobiles--1900-1910
Ford Model A automobile
Meeker, John
John Meeker's Ford, Scarborough Beach, ca. 1903
Text and Image
circa 1903
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1903
oai:mainememory.net:33292
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contributor:scarhs
Bill Snow
Joseph Snow, Sr. with the airplane that he built and flew in 1929. He is standing on Holly Street which is just before going from Blue Point to Pine Point. The property was owned by his father, Ira Snow. In the left background is the Pine Point Station of the Boston and Maine Railroad and on the right in the picture can be seen a large building which was to become a part of Snow's Canning Company.
Photographic print
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Joe Snow
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Air pilots--Maine--Scarborough
Airplanes--Maine--Scarborough
Snow , Ira
Snow, Joseph
Joseph Snow Sr. and his aeroplane, Scarborough, ca. 1929
Image
circa 1929
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Blue Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1929
oai:mainememory.net:33655
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Winslow Homer and Frank Coolbroth on a twig-style garden bench outside of Homer's studio in Prouts Neck, around 1900. Homer moved to his family's summer home, the Ark, sometime after 1882. He didn't like his living arrangement at the Ark so he had the stable redesigned to make a studio, with his living quarters on the second floor. Many of his marine paintings were done from this studio.
Frank Coolbroth was a family friend and legal adviser to Winslow Homer. Coolbroth was also the maternal grandfather of Addie Kaler-Vaill.
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Vacation houses--Maine--Scarborough
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910--Homes and haunts--Maine--Prouts Neck
Rustic work--Maine
Artists--Maine
Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910
Conversation
Artists' studios--Maine
Coolbroth, Frank
Homer, Winslow
Kaler-Vaill, Addie
Winslow Homer and Frank Coolbroth, Prouts Neck, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:33658
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Anna Delaware
The Dunscroft, located on Route 1 near the Pine Point Road, was operated as a restaurant and shore dinner establishment for 35 years.
In 1955 a section of the Dunscroft was cut off and moved about 500 yards from the original site and became the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Griffin, who had operated the Dunscroft for the previous 13 years.
Griffin said the building was moved "without even cracking the plaster." The remaining section of the Dunscroft was razed to make room for a drive-in snack bar.
Postcard
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Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Griffin, Henry
Dunscroft Inn, Scarborough, ca. 1950
Image
circa 1950
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Postcards
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
West Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1955
oai:mainememory.net:33659
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
"The Phoenix Hotel, on East Grand Avenue Extension, was operated by James Hayes from 1920 until his death. Robert Domigue, in his book, "The Village of Cockell," related that Mr. Hayes had the habit of sleeping in the barn with his horse. One evening in August 1939, the barn floor collapsed and Mr. Hayes and his horse fell through. The old gentleman, age eighty-nine, died as a result of the accident. The Phoenix was the only Scarborough hotel of its day that advertised being open all year long."
The above taken from Rodney Laughton's book "Image of America, Scarborough".
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Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Domigue, Robert
Hayes, James
The Phoenix House, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:33660
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Jocelyn Hotel was built in 1890 by Frank B. Libby then redesigned in 1898 by John Calvin Stevens. The original appearance was boxy, and similar in design to the Southgate Hotel. Stevens added Victorian features of towers and trim. It was built on the opposite end of Scarborough Beach from The Atlantic House and the Kirkwood Hotel.
It was destroyed by fire in the early hours of July 27, 1909. The fire started at Alonzo Googins house and place of business which was between the Jocelyn and Southgate Hotels. There was no organized fire department in town so nothing could be done to save the hotel.
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Architecture, Victorian
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Googins, Alonzo
Libby, Frank B.
Stevens, John Calvin
The Jocelyn Hotel, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:33661
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Ira Foss built the Checkley House Hotel in the 1870s at the tip of Prouts Neck in Scarborough, later known as Checkley Point. The hotel was named after Samuel Checkley, one of the early settlers of Scarborough. The building started as a boarding house, expanding several times over the years until Mr. Foss's death in 1919. His widow ran the hotel after his death.
Mr. Foss was an innovative hotel owner. The water system he built for the hotel also benefited the neighboring homes. Mr. Foss purchased electrical generators for the hotel to provide power for his pumps and elevators and lighting before electricity was readily available. He supplied horse-drawn wagons to meet every train at the Scarborough Station to transport people to "the Neck."
The Foss family sold the hotel in the early 1940s. It was razed in 1944 after five years of blackouts and coastal evacuations caused by World War II.
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Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Checkley Hotel (Scarborough, Me.)
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Checkley, Samuel
Foss, Ira
Checkley House Hotel, Scarborough, ca. 1938
Image
circa 1938
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1938
oai:mainememory.net:33664
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Lewis Litchfield was a station agent for the Boston and Maine Railroad in the early 1900s. He worked first at Pine Point and then later at Oak Hill.
Litchfield had a hobby of making high quality bamboo fishing rods and violins. According to a news report, two of his violins were taken to the North Pole by a school friend of his, Arctic explorer Donald B. MacMillan.
In 1897, he played one of his violins at the high school graduation in the Town Hall. Parts of that violin had been made from an old school house on Ross Road. He continued to play at the high school for over fifty years. He died at the age of 92.
Lewis Litchfield is on the left. The other people in the picture are unidentified.
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Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration
Boston and Maine Railroad--Employees
Carpenters--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing rods--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing--Equipment and supplies
MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970
Railroad employees--Maine--Scarborough
Railroad station managers--Maine--Scarborough
Violins--Maine--Scarborough
Woodworking--Maine--Scarborough
Litchfield, Lewis
MacMillan, Donald B.
Lewis Litchfield, Scarborough, ca. 1958
Image
circa 1958
8.8 cm x 12.7 cm
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Lewis Litchfield
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1958
oai:mainememory.net:33669
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
Addie Kaler-Vaill was from a well-known and prosperous family in Scarborough. Her life revolved around her family and her community. She was involved with the public library throughout her life and she was on the committee that erected the Soldiers Monument in Dunstan. She financed the tomb at Black Point Cemetery and established a trust fund to provided perpetual care for the cemetery.
Her greatest legacy was the establishment of the Kaler Vaill Home, a retirement home for up to fifteen women. She and her husband Edward Vaill, a prominent business man in Portland, envisioned and planned this endeavor. After her death in 1957, her residence at 382 Black Point Road was expanded and the Kaler Vaill Memorial home opened in 1960.
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Rest homes--Maine--Scarborough
Nursing homes--Maine--Scarborough
Philanthropy--Maine--Scarborough
Philanthropists--Maine
Kaler-Vaill, Addie--Portrait photographs
Charitable organizations--Maine--Scarborough
Kaler-Vaill, Addie
Vaill, Edward
Addie Kaler-Vaill, Scarborough, ca. 1945
Image
circa 1945
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1945
oai:mainememory.net:33671
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Cammock House was named in honor of Captain Thomas Cammock, the nephew of the Earl of Warwick, and a member of the Council of Plymouth in Massachusetts Bay. It was built by Silas Libby who inherited land from his father, Captain Thomas Libby, 3rd. It was the second hotel on Prouts Neck. The hotel started out modestly but grew over the years to a full scale hotel.
The hotel closed six or seven years before its century mark as it couldn't meet the newer and more stringent regulations of the modern day.
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Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Cammock, Thomas--Commemoration
Cammock, Thomas
Libby, Silas
Libby, Thomas
Cammock House, Scarborough, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Prouts Neck, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900
oai:mainememory.net:33672
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Normandie was a shore dinner restaurant on Route 1 in Dunstan Village in Scarborough. This building began as a small restaurant and gas station, which proved to be a short-lived business. Afterward a dining room was added to the front of the house, shown here around 1945. Over the years several different restaurants operated in this building. After the Normandie closed the building housed a furniture store and Oliver's TV, and is currently Hobbs Funeral Home.
Postcard
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Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
The Normandie, Scarborough, ca. 1945
Image
circa 1945
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1945
oai:mainememory.net:33673
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
The first proprietor of the Marshview Restaurant was Percy Scamman. The Marshview, located on Route 1 in Scarborough, was one of many seasonal shore dinner establishments and one that lasted the longest.
When Dr. Philip Haigis first arrived in Scarborough in 1944, he used the Marshview Restaurant as his first office since it was closed for the winter.
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Medical offices--Maine--Scarborough
Physicians--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Haigis, Philip
Scamman, Percy
Marshview Restaurant and Shore Dinner House, Scarborough, ca. 1940
Image
circa 1940
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Rodney Laughton
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1940
oai:mainememory.net:33674
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
McConnell's Cabins were overnight cabins on Route 1 in the Dunstan West Scarborough area not too far from the Saco line. Most overnight cabins were on or near Route 1 since it was the only major north-south highway of the area. There was no Maine Turnpike at the time. There was also a small garage on the site and a fur farm in the back of the property. The cabins are in back of the Blue Point Hotel.
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Automobile service stations--Maine--Scarborough
Cabins--Maine--Scarborough
Hides & skins--Maine--Scarborough
Fur farming--Maine--Scarborough
McConnell's Cabins, Scarborough, ca. 1928
Image
circa 1928
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Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
West Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1928
oai:mainememory.net:33676
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rodney Laughton
The Atlantic House, shown here in the 1960s, came into being in 1855 when Enoch Nutter rented out rooms out in his farm house at Scarborough Beach. Additions were built in 1877 and 1911, and a portion of the hotel was torn down around 1911-1912. For many years cattle could be seen grazing on the front lawn of the Atlantic House because it was still a working farm.
In 1923 Joseph Knight became the owner of the hotel, and promptly modernized and redecorated it. He had local artist Roger Deering paint murals for the lobby. These murals are now on display at the Scarborough Historical Society. Joseph Knight's son, Harry, ran the hotel after his fathers retirement until his early death. The hotel was sold and continued operating until 1988, when it was torn down and turned into condominiums.
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Hotels--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Architecture, Victorian
Deering, Roger
Nutter, Enoch
Nutter, Harry
The Atlantic House, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Scarborough Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
oai:mainememory.net:33689
2024-02-24T09:29:21Z
contributor:scarhs
Rufus King, the first child of Richard King and Isabella Bragdon, was born in Scarborough in 1755. He graduated from Harvard College in 1777. In 1778 he served in the Continental Army, in 1780 he was admitted to the bar in Massachusetts. In 1784 he was elected to represent Massachusetts at the Continental Congress. He was a member of the convention that framed the Constitution of the United States in 1787,
In 1788 he moved to New York City after marrying Mary Alsop of New York in 1786. While in New York he served in the United States Senate. While serving in the Senate he worked on the Missouri Compromise.
Rufus King was a "Orator, Statesman, and Patriot". He died in 1827 in New York.
Painting
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Legislators--New York
Legislators--United States
United States. Constitution
United States. Continental Congress
Paintings
King, Rufus, 1755-1827--Portraits
Missouri compromise
Harvard University
Alsop, Mary
Bragdon, Isabella
King, Richard
King, Rufus
Rufus King of Scarborough, ca. 1820
Image
circa 1820
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Rufus King
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1820
oai:mainememory.net:33690
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contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
Dr. Southgate was a physician, lawyer, judge, gentleman farmer and a business man. His interest were many and varied. He gave up being a physician after becoming interested in law and being appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
He also initiated one of the first diking experiments in Maine to increase salt marsh hay production. He headed the Scarborough Turnpike Corporation along with William and Cyrus King. This company built the Cumberland Turnpike which was a toll road across the marsh between Dunstan and Oak Hill.
Photographic print
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Lawyers--Maine--Scarborough
Southgate, Robert, 1741-1833--Portraits
Physicians--Maine--Scarborough
King, Cyrus
King, William
Southgate, Robert
Dr. Robert Southgate, ca. 1830
Image
circa 1830
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Southgate Family
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1830
oai:mainememory.net:34144
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contributor:scarhs
This 1937 Ford fire truck is in the Scarborough Fire Department Museum and is now used for parades. Lloyd Hart is driving the truck and his passenger is Neil Janelle. Both men were very active in the Ferry Beach Engine 2 Company.
Photographic print
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Fire engines--Maine--Scarborough
Firefighters--Maine--Scarborough
Fire departments--Maine--Scarborough
Hart, Lloyd
Janelle, Neil
Ford Fire Truck, Scarborough, ca. 1937
Image
circa 1937
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Fire Department
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Ferry Beach, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1937
oai:mainememory.net:34147
2024-02-24T09:29:24Z
contributor:scarhs
Bruce Thurlow
Eldred Harmon was born in his father's farmhouse, located at Harmon's corner in Scarborough at the intersection of Black Point Road and Spurwink Avenue, and shown here around 1922. Eldred lived until the age of 99 and passed away in 2010. In 2000, he was interviewed by a daughter-in-law. During the interview Eldred described Route 1 before it was paved and what it was like to attend school during his childhood, among other topics.
Photographic print
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Farms--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Harmon, Eldred
Eldred Harmon Homestead, Scarborough, ca. 1922
Image
circa 1922
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1922
oai:mainememory.net:34145
2024-02-24T09:29:25Z
contributor:scarhs
The note on the map reads: "The approximate location of some of the homes of early inhabitants of Scarborough as shown superimposed on a present day road map. Two maps entitled 'Black Point in Province of Maine' and 'Blue Point and Dunstan' from the 'History of Scarborough from 1633-to 1785' by William S. Southgate were used as basis for plotting the location of these homes."
Ink on paper, photograph
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92.84d
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Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough (Me.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Maps
Scarborough (Me.)--Maps
Old Homesteads in Scarborough, ca. 1950s
Text and Image
circa 1950
32.3 cm x 20.9 cm
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Maps
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1950
oai:mainememory.net:34148
2024-02-24T09:29:25Z
contributor:scarhs
Scarborough Historical Society and Museum
This map shows some of the early landowners in Scarborough, including Henry Jocelyn's homestead near Black Point. The original (from which this map is a copy) was originally crafted by John Godsoe in 1741, copied and additions made in 1844 and reprinted in the mid-twentieth century. The original map was made to sort out a land dispute between Zebulon Trickey and Timothy Prout.
Henry Jocelyn was born in England in 1606 and moved to Black Point in Scarborough by the 1630s. He was the business partner and close friend of Thomas Cammock another landowner on this map. Jocelyn was one of the town's founders, known as a skilled mediator, counselor, and a man of good judgment. He held several public offices.
Paper on cardboard
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Landowners--Maine--Scarborough
Cammock Patent
Jocelyn, Henry, 1606-1683--Homes and haunts--Maine--Scarborough
Scarborough (Me.)--Maps
Maine--Maps
Cammock, Thomas
Godsoe, John
Jocelyn, Henry
Prout, Timothy
Trickey, Zebulon
Black Point, Scarborough, ca. 1741
Text and Image
circa 1741
27.8 cm x 30 cm
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Maps:Black Point
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Black Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1741
oai:mainememory.net:34295
2024-02-24T09:29:26Z
contributor:scarhs
This shop relocated to Scarborough from Portland in 1931. The manufacturing department was located on Route 1. The truck would enter the building as a basic chassis then emerge at the other end of the building as a completed fire truck. The factory closed in the early 1950s. Scarborough never owned a McCann fire truck.
There is a Mercedes dealership at this location presently in 2010.
Photographic print
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Scarborough (Me.)--Businesses
Fire engines--Maine--Scarborough
McCann Corporation
McCann Fire Trucks
D.E. McCann and Sons
Fire fighting equipment industry--Maine--Scarborough
McCann, Daniel E.
McCann Fire Truck Manufacturing Shop, ca. 1949
Image
circa 1949
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McCann Fire Trucks
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Oak Hill, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1949
oai:mainememory.net:34447
2024-02-24T09:29:26Z
contributor:scarhs
The Ground Observer Corp, sponsored by the U. S. Air Force, was in effect during WW II and after. Its purpose was to monitor the movement of airplanes. Ordinary citizens would volunteer and watch for air traffic along the coast. This observation post was located in the Dunstan area atop of Edgar Thurston's garage. The two people in the picture are not identified.
Photographic print
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90.45.1a
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United States. Aircraft Warning Service. Ground Observer Corps
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Civilians in war--Maine--Scarborough
World War, 1939-1945
Thurston, Edgar
Ground Observer Post WW II, Scarborough, ca. 1940
Image
circa 1940
20.3 cm x 25.4 cm
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World War II
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1940
oai:mainememory.net:34448
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contributor:scarhs
Students from the Scottows Hill school in Scarborough in the 1920s.
Front Row, left to right:
Robert Waterhouse, George Milliken, Irving Moulton, Linwood Libby, Leroy Clough
Second Row, left to right:
Ruth Moulton, Eleanor Robinson, Gertrude Soule, Ethel Small, Beatrice Hurrell, Olive Dow, Geneva Berry, Reta Milliken
Back Row, left to right:
Ira Milliken, Lawrence Waterhouse, Edward Neilsen, Herbert Sargent, Lawrence Storey, Herbert McPherson, Maynard Curtis, James Knox,Jr.
Photographic print
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66.13.1
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School children--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Group portraits
Berry, Geneva
Clough, Leroy
Curtis, Maynard
Dow, Olive
Hurrell, Beatrice
Knox, Jr., James
Libby , Linwood
McPherson, Herbert
Milliken, George
Milliken, Ira
Milliken, Reta
Moulton, Irving
Moulton, Ruth
Neilsen, Edward
Robinson, Eleanor
Sargent, Herbert
Small, Ethel
Soule, Gertrude
Storey, Lawrence
Waterhouse, Lawrence
Waterhouse, Robert
Scottow's Hill Rural School, Scarborough, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
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Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
West Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1920
oai:mainememory.net:34450
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contributor:scarhs
Pupils Attending Scottow Hill One Room School
Front Row,left:
Edward Neilsen, Lawrence Waterhouse, Weston, Ira Milliken
Middle Row,left:
Ethel Small, Edith Fogg, Hazel McClellan (teacher), Caroline Carter, Herman Wibe
Back row,left:
Name Unknown,Fred Carter, Walter Sargent, Herbert Sargent
Photographic print
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02.55.4
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One room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Group portraits
School children--Maine--Scarborough
Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
Teachers--Maine--Scarborough
Carter, Caroline
Carter, Fred
Fogg, Edith
McClellan, Hazel
Milliken, Ira
Neilsen, Edward
Sargent, Herbert
Sargent, Walter
Small, Ethel
Waterhouse, Lawrence
Weston,
Wibe, Herman
Scottow's Hill One Room School Students, ca. 1920
Image
circa 1920
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Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
West Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1920
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Don Googins and his son Dana of Scarborough returning home from digging clams in 1961. The aluminum boat and outboard motor made traveling on the rivers easy. These improvements also allowed clammers to travel more easily, anywhere from a few hundred feet to three miles to dig on certain clam flats. While digging they used the wooden clam hod, galvanized pail or wire mesh basket to hold their catch. Once this was full and the clams had been initially washed in the river, they were dumped into wooden bushel baskets.
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Shellfish industry--Equipment & supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Clams--Maine--Scarborough
Clamming--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Shellfish trade--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing boats--Maine--Scarborough
Piers & wharves--Maine--Scarborough
Googins, Dana
Googins, Donald
Clam digging, Scarborough, 1961
Image
1961
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
1961
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Bruce Thurlow of Scarborough, at age 16, stands by a pile of his repaired lobster traps. These were 36-inch round wooden traps with nylon heads and rope, ready for spring setting in 1953. These traps contained three permanent bricks designed to hold the trap on the ocean floor. However, as each trap was initially set, another three loosely laid bricks were added, allowing the trap to sink. It would not be hauled for two to three days until it had "soaked up" and sank only with the permanent bricks in place.
Most boys who grew up in Pine Point in Scarborough followed in their father's trade, and it was quite common to become a lobster fisherman. Many learned the trade by hauling traps by hand and getting to strings (a string would be anywhere from 2-10 individual traps placed in a lucrative lobster territory) of traps in 16 foot skiffs propelled by outboard motors.
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Fishing--Maine--Scarborough
Lobsters--Maine
Lobster fishers--Maine--Scarborough
Fishermen--Maine--Scarborough
Lobster industry--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Lobster traps--Maine--Scarborough
Thurlow, Bruce
Bruce Thurlow with lobster traps, Scarborough, ca. 1953
Image
circa 1953
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1953
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Bruce Thurlow
David Thurlow used this buoy off the coast of Scarborough between 1953 and 1972. The rope is made of sisal, an organic material. Following World War II, nylon products were available and rope and twine for lobster trap nets were made from a synthetic product. Nylon was much stronger and did not rot, while the sisal decayed over time. The buoy was made from a cedar log turned on a lathe. In the same period of time styrofoam buoys and bobbers began to replace other products.
Wood, sisal
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Fishing--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Fishing & hunting gear
Buoys
Thurlow, David--Associated objects
Lobster industry--Equipment and supplies--Maine--Scarborough
Thurlow, David
Cedar and sisal buoy, Scarborough, ca. 1953
Physical Object
circa 1953
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Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1953
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This lovely home was located on Route 1 in Dunstan between the Pine Point and Old Blue Point roads. It was the Mark Milliken residence then Joseph Knight who had also bought the Atlantic House lived here. It served as the Hay and Peabody Funeral Home in the latter part of the twentieth century.
Photographic print
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Funeral homes--Maine--Scarborough
Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Houses--Maine--Scarborough
Dwellings--Maine--Scarborough
Hay,
Knight, Joseph
Milliken, Mark
Peabody,
Hay and Peabody Funeral Home, Scarborough, ca. 1960
Image
circa 1960
12.7 cm x 17.7 cm
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Homesteads;Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Dunstan, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1960
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For the first few years of existence Mr. Snow ran a seasonal shore dinner establishment and the cannery during the winter months. He gave up the shore dinner restaurant to run the cannery year round. The porch of the building was used as seasonal fish market. For many years he was the major employer in Pine Point. He built his business so well his clam chowder was a nationally recognized name, Snow's Clam Chowder.
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Buildings--Maine--Scarborough
Restaurants--Maine--Scarborough
Canneries--Maine--Scarborough
Clams--Maine--Scarborough
Fish canneries--Maine--Scarborough
Shellfish industry--Maine--Scarborough
Shellfish trade--Maine--Scarborough
Snow, Fred H.
Snow's Canning Factory, Scarborough, ca. 1930
Image
circa 1930
12.7 cm x 17.1 cm
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Business
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
Pine Point, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1930
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The North Scarborough School was a one-room school on County Road near the junction of Gorham Road. Students attended school here from 1875 to 1958. It was closed by the town due to the expense of providing "modern toilets" and students were sent to Eight Corners School, which opened in 1959.
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Rural schools--Maine--Scarborough
School children--Maine--Scarborough
One-room schools--Maine--Scarborough
Physical education and training--Maine--Scarborough
Phys ed, North Scarborough School, ca. 1900
Image
circa 1900
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Schools
Scarborough Historical Society & Museum
North Scarborough, Scarborough, Cumberland County, ME, USA
circa 1900