Mexico

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

As paper mills were established at Rumford Falls in the 1890s, many workers and their families settled in Ridlonville in the adjacent town of Mexico. »Read More

Brownville Junction

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Automobiles are quite visible in this view of Main Street in Brownville Junction »Read More

Deer Isle

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

With the exception of A.O. Goss’s general store at the left, small wooden shops line both sides of Deer Isle’s Main Street in this pre-World War I photograph. »Read More

Cranberry Islands

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Main Street or Main Road on Big Cranberry Island shows the rural nature of the island »Read More

Searsport

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

In nearly a century since this photograph was taken, the trees lining Searsport’s Main Street have disappeared »Read More

Belfast

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Dating from about 1920, this view of upper Main Street in Belfast terminates at the public square »Read More

Saco

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Saco and its twin city of Biddeford were among the first Maine communities to become large-scale textile manufacturing centers »Read More

Norway

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Of the three commercial buildings in the center of this view of Norway’s Main Street in the 1920s, only the Knights of Pythias Hall at the left now stands. »Read More

Bar Harbor

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

This circa 1910 view of Main Street, Bar Harbor, captures the appearance of the commercial district of one of America’s leading Victorian summer resorts »Read More

Princeton

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

The automotive age of the 1920s is much in evidence in this view of Main Street in the Washington County lumber town of Princeton. »Read More

Limerick

Dec 14, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Commercial and residential properties were comfortably integrated along Limerick’s picturesque tree-lined Main Street. »Read More

East Wilton

Dec 4, 2012 Matt Main Streets

At a prominent intersection along East Wilton’s quiet Main Street stands H.H. Johnson’s general store.  »Read More

Thomaston

Dec 4, 2012 Matt Main Streets

The magnificent elms which merged to form a leafy arch across Thomaston’s broad Main Street »Read More

Ripley

Dec 4, 2012 Matt Main Streets

A century ago dozens of crossroads villages in rural Maine looked like Main Street in Ripley »Read More

Presque Isle

Dec 4, 2012 Matt Main Streets

In the early 20th century, fraternal organizations played a more visible role in their communities than they do today. »Read More

Kennebunk

Dec 4, 2012 Matt Main Streets

Kennebunk Village prospered in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a commercial and manufacturing center »Read More