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The camera also shows some of the top branches of the trees shifting back and forth amid the shaking. According to the USGS, the largest known New England earthquakes occurred in 1638 with a ...
Its village center is located in the southeastern part of town, on the banks of the river. Unlike the city of Bangor, 13 miles (21 km) to the north at the river's head of navigation, the river at Winterport was always free of ice in winter. Winterport was part of Frankfort until 1860. As Bangor's lumber industry boomed, Winterport also grew, as ...
Naples is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 3,925 at the 2020 census, [3] and it is home to part of Sebago Lake State Park. Naples is a resort area.
The Gerald Hotel is a former hotel building at 151–157 Main Street in the center of Fairfield, Maine, United States. It was designed by William R. Miller for Amos F. Gerald, one of Maine's leading businessmen of the late 19th century, and built in 1899–1900. It is a striking Renaissance Revival structure, with a sophistication of design and ...
The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (also known as "Our Lady of Victories") stands in the center of Monument Square, on the former site of Portland's 1833 city hall. [14] Dedicated on October 28, 1891, [ 15 ] it honors "those brave men of Portland, soldiers of the United States Army and sailors of the Navy of the United States who died in ...
Thunder Falls is Maine's first log flume ride—race through Snake Canyon and Hopkins Rapids on the longest and tallest log flume ride in Maine. Tilt-A-Whirl: Tilt-A-Whirl: Sellner Manufacturing: 1976: A ride where its riders are inside domed tipkarts that are spinning very fast, while the platform races along an invisible inner track.
The Strathglass Building is a historic commercial building at 25 Hartford Street in the central business district of Rumford, Maine.Built c.1906, it is an imposing four-story architect-designed Beaux-Arts building, constructed by Hugh J. Chisholm, Rumford's leading industrialist in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The Colonial Inn is a historic hotel at 145 Shore Road in Ogunquit, Maine. The hotel complex is anchored by an 1890 Queen Anne Victorian hotel that is one of the few surviving resort hotels of the period, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The complex also has rooms in adjacent motel spaces; its amenities include a ...