A railway history tour of Maine - By MATTHEW DELMAN Special to the Maine Sunday Telegram Rail travel in Maine is an experience you’re not likely to have in other parts of the country. From the two-foot narrow-gauge railroads to the electric trolleys and the picturesque coastline, the state of Maine broadcasts its uncommon...
Published at HelloConcord.com For six years in the 1840s, U.S. President Franklin Pierce and his family lived on Montgomery Street in the middle of Downtown Concord about two blocks away from the New Hampshire State House in a house now known as the Pierce Manse. A mere four years after leaving the Concord house,...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com In 1984, a fire on the east end of Portland led to the founding of the Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Company & Museum. Because the fire ruined a bridge that was part of the Canadian National Railroad right-of-way, that railroad ceased operations there and the state of Maine snatched up the property....
Published at HelloPortlandMaine.com Boothbay Railway Village in Boothbay, Maine, is unusual among New England museums; no other location exhibits classic automobiles, buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries, and narrow-gauge railroads in one museum. Only about an hour north of Portland, and roughly the same distance south of Augusta in the Mid Coast region,...
Published on HelloHartford.com From 1640 to about 1810, the cemetery on Gold Street, the Ancient Burying Ground, was where every resident of Hartford was buried when they passed away. Now, it holds the title of Oldest Historical Site in the city and the only one that survives from the founding of Hartford in 1640. The oldest surviving...
Published at HelloProvidence.com In 1896, former Providence resident John Steere gifted the city with his collection of mammal and bird specimens, sparking the city of Providence to found the Museum of Natural History in Roger Williams Park to host Steere’s collection for public viewing. As luck would have it, Steere’s gift coincided with the...
Published at HelloManchester.com Housed in what was once Mill No. 3 of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., the Millyard Museum on Bedford Street tells the story of Manchester (nicknamed the Queen City), from the first natives who fished at Amoskeag Falls 11,000 years ago through the 21st century. The Millyard Museum’s signature exhibit, Woven in Time:...
Published at HelloConcord.com The story of Mt. Kearsage Indian Museum begins in 1929, when founder Charles “Bud” Thompson’s second-grade classroom was visited by Grand Chief Sachem Silverstar (Atwood I. Williams), leader of both the Paucatuck Eastern Pequot and the Mashantucket Western Pequot tribes. Young Thompson was fascinated by the chief’s speech on the interconnectedness...
Published on HelloPortlandMaine.com Set among the trees and rolling hills about an hour west of Portland is 19th Century Willowbrook Village, a living museum crafted from a variety of properties purchased by Don King and his associates starting with the 1965 purchase of the Durgin property in Newfield. More than four decades after that...
Published on HelloHartford.com You wouldn’t know it from the outside, but Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn were born in the big house on Farmington Avenue, now known as the Mark Twain House and Museum. Samuel Clemens, the boys’ creator, lived in the Mark Twin House and Museum with his family from 1874 to 1891...
