Krista Luttrell
Researching Ancestors. Creating Things.
recent posts
- A Small Update Changed Everything: My mtDNA Genetic Genealogy Journey
- An Honest Day’s Work for an Honest Day’s Pay: Irish supporting Irish in 19th Century Portland, Maine
- Announcement: Major New Brunswick Museum Renovation Underway
- Machias, Margaretta and O’Brien DNA
- America’s 250th and the Maine Irish
Category: Railroad
Maine Railroad
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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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In the 1840s, echoes of a new sound emerged from Maine’s forests: the rhythmic bang of hammers striking upon granite and iron. Within a few years, the promise of progress had reached the northernmost corner of Maine and other northern New England States. Portland’s merchants dreamed of an economic lifeline tethering their city to the…
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On December 9th, 1850, at St. Dominic’s Church in Portland, Maine, Patrick Burke and Bridget Kildea of Paris Cape stood before Rev. John O’Donnell and made their matrimonial vows. Their witnesses, Patrick Cunningham and Catherine Burke, the wife of Thomas Gantley, Portland residents, were likely close family members. Paris Cape is in Paris, Maine, and…
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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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