Krista Luttrell
Researching Ancestors. Creating Things.
recent posts
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- America’s 250th and the Maine Irish
Category: portland
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An Honest Day’s Work for an Honest Day’s Pay: Irish supporting Irish in 19th Century Portland, Maine
If you stand on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, and look towards the Casco Bay waterfront, you’ll see the brick and stone remnants of the old Portland Company rising up from Fore Street. In the 1800s, this was the city’s biggest employer, a large factory that made locomotives, steam engines, and other heavy machinery. Most…
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Thirty seconds it was-or maybe a minute-on a pleasant Saturday noon,the blaring horn slicedthrough the pine tree airwhere we kids once swunghigher, higher, and higheras if our feet could touchthe bright blue skybeyond the needle green.My father sat and sippedhis steaming Nescafé,immersed in pages of fading news,as that clockwork blarecut through our dog day,and snow…
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The Portland Company was founded in 1845 by John Poor, a lawyer and entrepreneur originally from Andover, Maine. It played a pivotal role in Portland’s industrial growth during the 19th century. Situated on the waterfront side of Fore Street at the bottom of Munjoy Hill, the Company quickly became a leading manufacturing hub, producing steam…
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Many moons ago, when I first began my journey into the realm of family history, my intention was simple: to write a small book about what I had discovered, for the benefit of my beloved children and the generations who will come after them. In the early Spring of this year, I finally began this…
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