Author: Emma Stevens (Emma Stevens)

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Old Kennebunks Stores Collapse into Their Rivers

Shipbuilder Nathaniel Lord Thompson rebuilt the grist mill at the Mousam River Bridge in 1869 when maritime prospects were dim. Around the same time, he built a 2 ½ -story dwelling diagonally across the bridge, perhaps for workforce housing. Gilpatric wrote that the building was a gatehouse over the dam flume, and it did have...

November 21, 2024November 21, 2024
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To the KHS Members

At the May 2021, monthly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Kennebunkport Historical Society, a motion was put forward to sell the Pasco Center, the administrative headquarters of the Historical Society.  The motion to sell Pasco Center was predicated upon a year-long study and discussion by the Directors to determine whether it was in...

June 1, 2021February 18, 2022
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Kennebunkport Historical Society awarded Employee Vibrant Community Grant from the Corning Foundation

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (April 29, 2020) – The Corning Incorporated Foundation has made an Employee Vibrant Community Grant of $1,000 to the Kennebunkport Historical Society. Arundel resident Denise Stevens, who works at Corning as a cell culture lab technician, has volunteered for the Society since 2014. Stevens applied for the one-time grant in January. “It would...

April 20, 2021February 18, 2022