Maine Registers

By Don Taylor

Photo of several Maine Registers on a shelf.I just love the Maine Registers to provide background information during my research. For example, the 1918 Maine Register has a section about Post Offices; if you wrote to someone at a particular location, it tells which post office the mail would go to. For example: 

  • Coal-Kiln Corner village mail went to South Buxton P.O., as did Scarboro Corner.
  • Dunstan Corner mail went to West Scarboro P.O.
  • Spurwink and Higgins Beach went to the So. Portland R.F.D.7.

That means someone’s address might be South Portland and live in Higgins Beach, Scarborough. Possibly their mailing address is Gorham while they actually live in North Scarborough. 

Likewise, the 1918 Register identifies many of the Hotels, where they were, and who managed them. The 1918 Maine Register lists these hotels at Scarborough Beach.

  • Atlantic House, E. A. Gunnison & Co.
  • Forest House, John C. Seavy.
  • Spurwink House, Aug. H. Mitchell

A couple at Pine Point

  • Sportsman’s House, I. W. Pillsbury
  • Lookaway Inn, Fred Ruggles

and several at Prouts Neck

  • Checkley House, Ira C. Foss
  • The Willows, Mrs. E. I. Seavey
  • West Point House, Robert R. Jordan Lee Cottage, Mrs. H. A. Lee Cammock House, M.
  • F. Libby Southgate House, John M. Kaler Pinehurst Cottage, F. Andrews
  • West Moulton House, M. E. Moulton The Wayland, Mrs. A. F. Moulton

An example of Scarborough’s entries 

from the 1924 Maine Register

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are quite a few Maine Registers online at Internet Archive and Hathi Trust, but if you like to page through original printed copies, visit us at the Museum. We have the following issues at the Museum.

1895-96     1943-44      1976-77
1903-04     1957-58      1981-82
1911-12       1963-64      1985-86
1913-14      1966-67      1988-89
1914-15      1968-69      1990-91
1915-16      1972-73
1934-35     1973-74

Maine Registers at the Scarborough Museum are located in the “Thomas Henley” and the “Jan Makowski” Bookcases.

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From the Ephemera. . .

By Linda Snow McLoon

Early Scarborough merchants often had elaborate letterheads for their businesses. These three competing retailers did business in Dunstan, where they offered a wide range of inventory to their customers.

W.H.Graffam
Photo Courtesy R. Laughton Collection

W. H. Graffam Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Society

 
 
 

G. W. Knight Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Society

G. W. Knight Store
Photo courtesy R Laughton Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ephemera from the collections of the Scarborough Historical Society.

J. H. Leavitt Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Societ

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More High School Yearbooks Added

Thanks to Oklahoma Corrections Industries and their High School Yearbook project, we were able to digitize, OCR, and post five more Scarborough High School Yearbooks. 

  1. The Four Corners – 1956 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  2. The Four Corners – 1958 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  3. The Four Corners – 1961 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  4. The Four Corners – 1962 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  5. The Four Corners – 1966 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.

 

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Scarborough Beech Ridge School House Restoration

October 2021 Update

In the Fall of 2018, the Scarborough Historical Society was given the decades-long vacated one-room schoolhouse building, built in the 1800s and located at 184 Beech Ridge Road. With an estimated budget of $280,000 and through donations and grants, $130,000 has been raised to date. We intend to preserve and share this building with the community.

So far, we have lifted the building, poured a new foundation, replaced rotted sills, closed in the open to the element’s back walls in an addition, installed a basement stairwell and bulkhead. The interior was gutted and a temporary electric service was installed. 

We are grateful for very recent donations that will start the next phase as our Scarborough contractor installs replacement windows and doors, reframes interior walls, removes rotted exterior siding, and installs historically accurate sawn clapboards. As far as funds allow at this time, we may also be able to commission the design for a septic system.

Donations may be made via check and US mail to:

Scarborough Historical Society
PO Box 156
Scarborough, ME, 04070-0156

via our Go Fund Me Page. 

or by cash at the museum (647 U.S. Route One) during our normal hours.

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See the Scarborough Bicentennial Quilt at Town Hall

After its display at the Scarborough Public Library, the Scarborough Bicentennial Quilt was moved to Scarborough Town Hall and hung in Chamber B. Early Absentee Ballot voters can view the quilt there until October 28th.

Bicentennial Quilt hanging at Town Hall – Photo by Joyce Alden – Oct 2021

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