Category Archives: Places in Scarborough

September 2018 Website Activity

Posted on October 1, 2018 by Don Taylor

Main Room Surname Files – I added an Alger Family Page, Scanned and OCRed 5 files, Linked 3 Known Internet Resources. I added a Walker Surname Page. Added a letter from Maynard E. Walker to Miss Libby dated 7 Mar 1959 – … Continue reading →

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Surname – Alger

Posted on September 2, 2018 by Don Taylor

Alger Family of Dunstan, Scarborough Town, Cumberland County, Maine.   Surname File – Alger Item Accession# Comments Descendancy Chart: Descendants of Arthur Alger 03.59.2 (8 Jun 2005) Family History: Alger Angle, The – 1618-1754 06.74.1 Family History: Alger Family 95.40.19B … Continue reading →

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July 2018 Website Activity

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Don Taylor

Photographs I published the following photographs from Photo Box 1, “Miscellaneous Businesses” to Digital Maine at the Maine State Library: Maine Egg Producers Candling Room at Maine Egg Producers I published the following photographs from Photo Box 1, “Miscellaneous Businesses” to this … Continue reading →

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Hotels of Scarborough

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Don Taylor

NOTE: Changes of Date, Time, and Location! This month’s Scarborough Historical Society meeting and presentation will be at 2:00 pm, January 7th, 2018, at the Scarborough Public Library. “The Hotels of Scarborough Beach and Prouts Neck” will be presented by … Continue reading →

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The Wayland & The Saint Louis Home for Boys

Posted on December 7, 2017 by Don Taylor

Dunstan, Scarborough Town, Cumberland County By Don Taylor All of us who drive through the Dunstan area in Scarborough have seen it. The big, yellow, monster of a building at the corner of US Route One and Broadturn Road. Looking … Continue reading →

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“A DOLEFUL SLAUGHTER NEAR BLACK POINT”

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Sumner Hunnewell

The Battle at Moore’s Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677 by Sumner Hunnewell Originally published in two parts in the May 2003 and August 2003 issues of The Maine Genealogist and is published here with permission of the publisher and the author. … Continue reading →

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Pleasant Hill Memories & Pleasant Hill Hose Company History

Posted on April 2, 2017 by A. Elwood Willey

Scarborough, Maine 1920s to 1950s By A. Elwood Willey Walpole, Mass. For Scarborough Historical Society and public use with customary credit to the author Pleasant Hill is a place located in the Eastern part of Scarborough bordering the South Portland … Continue reading →

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March 1, 2017 Program – Scarborough Woolly Mammoth

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Don Taylor

Reminder: Program is Tonight – 1 March 2017 The March program will include Wally Fengler who will be talking about the wooly mammoth found on his Scarborough property in 1959.  Initially thought to be an elephant, testing revealed it to … Continue reading →

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Black Point School – Class Photo 1934

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Don Taylor

Left to Right Front Row Percy Nichols, Roger Saywood, Donald Fredericks, Edward Meserve Jr.,  Donald Richardson, Wade Harmon, Clayton Skillings. Second Row Isabelle Harmon, Marguerite Skillings, Betty Brimson, Shirley Libby, Beverly Meserve, Frances Burnson, Deloris Harmon, Eva Swinborn Third Row Miss … Continue reading →

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Black Point School – Class Photo 1879

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Don Taylor

Black Point School – Class Photo 1879  Front Row left to right: Leon Harmon, Dorothy Libby, Anna Lee, Jennie Harmon, Laura Prichard, Teacher Theresa Libby,  Lucy Lee,  Arlene Harmon, Nellie Harmon, Della Carter, Raymond Brown. Second Row:  Ora Bucky, Dollie Carter,  Isa Googins,  Florence … Continue reading →

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