Poland, Maine - Historical Society

08/12/2026

🖼Tonight is our Photo Identification Workshop at 6:30! If you have photos you need help identifying, bring them along, or help identify some of ours!

The photographs date back to as early as the 1800s.

08/06/2026

Thanks to all of you who offered suggestions on where, when and what was the occasion pictured here. We often receive envelopes full of old photographs, many without any identification or any connection to Poland. It's very likely that Albert Durgin of Poland attended an event in Portland or Lewiston, perhaps an awards dinner or reunion.

The previous two photos of a parade and the Town Hall decorated in red, white & blue were labeled BICENTENNIAL and we'll take that to mean America's Bicentennial in 1976.

Identifying pictures 50 years or more after they were taken isn't easy work. Please come to the Schoolhouse Museum on Wednesday, August 12th at 6:30pm and help us put names, dates & places to our picture collection. We look forward to seeing you there!

08/04/2026

Join us August 12th for our Photo Identification Workshop!

The photographs date back to as early as the 1800s.

07/28/2026

🤔 Can you help unlock the stories behind this photo? 📸

This is the 3rd of three mystery photographs discovered at the Androscoggin Historical Society. (The parade and town hall speakers photos were the first two.) Do you know what this special dinner was, do you recognize anyone in this photo?

The Poland Historical Society has many photographs waiting to be identified, and we need your help preserving these important pieces of our community's history before the stories behind them are forgotten.

Join us for a Photo Identification Workshop on Wednesday August 12 from 6:30-8:00PM at the Schoolhouse Museum. Bring your memories, your stories, and your knowledge of Poland's past as we work together to put names, places and dates with these treasured photographs. Our focus will be on photos from the 1960s and 1970s, but you're welcome to browse through any of the albums in our collection. The museum will be cool and comfortable with air conditioning, and refreshments available.

Whether you recognize a familiar face, remember a local event, or simply enjoy helping preserve history, we'd love to have you join us! For more information call 207-998-5268.

07/24/2026

Here are some poems shared with us today, and written by Leroy Frank! Leroy was a longtime resident of Poland and a member of the Poland Community Church.

07/16/2026

THANKS to everyone who shared comments on the Marching Band and the location of the Parade. Dave Andrews and Dave Tedford are correct. However, it doesn't appear that anyone could identify the event. The parade pic was found at the Androscoggin Historical Society in Lewiston along with this picture. We can all agree where this was taken, but when was it ? And who is speaking & who is sleeping? Help us identify the band and observers, too. By the way, the original pictures are black & white. Since the colorization comes from an app, they may not be accurate, as several comments mentioned the unfamiliar color of uniforms.