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Congress Square Park

Congress Square Park is a small public park in the Arts District of Portland, Maine. The park includes a stage for performances and areas for sitting. It is also home to a large, historic clock which had previously been located at Union Station. History The park was built in 1982 with an urban development grant from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Starting in 2012, the city, led by Mayor Michael F. Brennan and City Manager Jon Jennings, sought to sell the park to a private equity firm Rockbridge Capital, which was renovating the adjacent hotel. Rockbridge sought to build a single story event center over most of the park. However, residents (led by the Friends of Congress Square Park) drafted an ordinance which sought to prevent the sale until a vote could occur. After collecting a sufficient number of signatures, the sale was postponed until after a June 2014 referendum. In that election, voters endorsed their initiative, which prevented the sale of the public and added protections to the further sale of public spaces. Since 2013, the Friends of Congress Square Park has organized events, raised funds on behalf of, and maintained the park. In 2018, the city received a $33,000 grant for a public art project in the park. References External links Media related to Congress Square Park at Wikimedia Commons Congress Square Park portlandmaine.gov Friends of Congress Square Park
Bourne Mansion

The Bourne Mansion is a historic house at 8 Bourne Street in Kennebunk, Maine, United States. Built in 1812, it is a fine local example of Federal architecture. It was owned for many years by members of the locally prominent Bourne family. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 24, 1980. Description and history The Bourne Mansion is set on the west side of Bourne Street, in a small residential area north of United States Route 1 in the town center. It is a three-story wood-frame structure, with a low-pitch hip roof, clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. The main facade faces south, and is five bays wide, with a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows and Tuscan pilasters, and is topped by a fan-light window. Above this entrance is a Palladian window. There is a secondary entrance on the street-facing eastern facade, with Ionic pilasters supporting an entablature, with a fanlight just below. A single-story addition, built in the late 19th century, extends to the north. The interior has retained its elegant Federal finish, including a wide central hallway and a fine central spiral staircase. The side hall leading to the eastern entrance has a particularly fine carved arched niche for housing a tall clock. When John Parsons, a successful merchant, built the house in 1812, he copied his wife's house in Newburyport, Massachusetts. The house was sold to the Sewall family in 1815, and was bequeathed by Mrs. William Sewall to her nephew, Edward Bourne, Jr. in the late 19th century. The Bournes are a historically old family of Kennebunk, with a long line of civic and economically significant actors. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Maine References
Bowdoin College Museum of Art

The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is an art museum located in Brunswick, Maine. The museum is a part of Bowdoin College and has been located in the Walker Art Building since 1894. The museum is historically strong in classical art. Admission to the museum is free for all visitors. History The museum's collection originated from separate donations of art from James Bowdoin III in 1811 and 1826. Having been housed in a number of different locations during its history, the museum found a permanent home in the Walker Art Building in 1894. Commissioned in 1891 and completed in 1894, this Renaissance Revival building was designed by Charles Follen McKim and commissioned by Mary Sophia Walker (1839–1904) and Harriet Sarah Walker (1844–1898) in memory of their uncle, Theophilus Wheeler Walker (1813–1890), who supported the creation of the first small art gallery at Bowdoin in the mid-nineteenth century. The Walker sisters also donated a collection of art and antiquities, including Greek and Roman ceramics and glass purchased with the aid of Edward Perry Warren. The lunettes of the building's domed rotunda features four murals representing antiquity: Rome by Elihu Vedder, Venice by Kenyon Cox, Athens by John La Farge, and Florence by Abbott Thayer. The building also contains a large bronze tablet portrait of Theophilus Wheeler Walker by Daniel Chester French. At the entrance are a pair of Medici lions copied from those in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. While the Walker Art Building had been renovated once in 1974, the $20.8 million renovation by architects Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston that finished in 2007 garnered praise for its creation of a new modern entrance to the museum while preserving the structural integrity of the original building. The new entrance features a glass and bronze pavilion, a floating steel staircase, and a glass curtain wall to display Assyrian reliefs, along with an additional 2,000 square feet of gallery space. In 2008, the renovation received the American Architecture Award alongside other awards from the Boston Society of Architects, the Illuminating Engineering Society, the American Institute of Architects New England, and the Maine Preservation Society. Collections The museum's permanent collection comprises more than 30,000 objects and is especially strong in antiquities and works on paper. It holds more than 1,800 Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Chinese objects. According to the museum's website, this "constitutes one of the most comprehensive compilations of ancient art in any academic museum." The museum's extensive European art holdings include about 700 Dutch and Flemish artworks dating from 1500 to 1800, along with American, Asian, global, and contemporary art. The museum seeks balance by acquiring works by artists who are female, indigenous, people of color, or from underrepresented regions such as Latin America. Visitors can search the entire collection online, and the majority of the objects have been digitized. References External links Media related to Bowdoin College Museum of Art at Wikimedia Commons Official website
Bradbury Mountain State Park

Bradbury Mountain State Park is a public recreation area in the town of Pownal, Cumberland County, Maine, managed by the Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The state park covers 730 acres (300 ha). History The park was created in the 1940s as one of Maine's original five state parks after the land was acquired from the Federal government in 1939. The park's borders were extended across Maine Route 9 with the addition of the Knight Woods parcels in the 1990s and 2000s. Geology The park's namesake has been described as a "small, inconspicuous hill, less than 500' high," that despite its size offers panoramic views that make the park one of the more popular ones in the state. The underlying material of granite and pegmatite is exposed at the summit. Activities and amenities The park's multi-use trails are used for hiking, snowmobiling and horseback riding. Most trails in the park are open to mountain bikers. Hiking is popular during all seasons, including winter. References External links Bradbury Mountain State Park Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Bradbury Mountain State Park Map (East) Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Bradbury Mountain State Park Map (West) Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry
Royal River Park

Royal River Park is an urban park in Yarmouth, Maine, United States. It is located to the northwest of the town center, between East Elm Street to the west and Bridge Street to the east. U.S. Route 1 runs through the park via an overpass. The park is named for the Royal River, which passes through the park at its northern extremity, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) west of Yarmouth's harbor, into which it empties after its 39 miles (63 km) journey from its source. The park runs along the southern banks of the river for about 0.57 miles (0.92 km). At its widest point, the park is about 700 feet (210 m) wide. The park has entrances at East Elm Street, Mill Street, Yarmouth Crossing Drive, William H. Rowe Elementary School and Bridge Street. The more easterly of the two pedestrian bridges in the Royal River Park is built on old abutments for a trolley line which ran between Yarmouth and Freeport between 1906 and 1933. The Beth Condon Memorial Pathway crosses the bridge. Three of the town's four waterfalls are within the bounds of the park. The Third (or Baker) Falls were, by far, the most industrious of the four. The first buildings — Jeremiah Baker's grist mill, a carding mill and a nail mill — wears erected in 1805 on the eastern side of the river. On the western (or town) side of the river was a scythe and axe factory owned by Joseph C. Batchelder. Benjamin Gooch's fulling mill followed in 1830, but it later moved to the Fourth Falls. The Yarmouth Paper Company, which produced paper pulp, was built in 1864. The main access road to it was an extended version of today's Mill Street, off Main Street. The original building burned in 1870. Two years later, a soda pulp mill — named C.D. Brown Paper Company — was built, to which Samuel Dennis Warren and George Warren Hammond bought the rights in 1874 and renamed it the Forest Paper Company. Beginning with a single wooden building, the facility expanded to ten buildings covering as many acres, including a span over the river to Factory Island. Two bridges to it were also constructed. In 1909, it was the largest such mill in the world, employing 275 people. The mill used 15,000 cords (54,000 m3) of poplar each year, which meant mounds of logs were constantly in view beside Mill Street. Six railroad spurs extended from the tracks running behind Main Street to the Forest Paper Company, traversing today's Royal River Park. Rail cars delivered logs, coal, soda and chlorine to the mill and carried pulp away. The mill closed in 1923, when import restrictions on pulp were lifted and Swedish pulp became a cheaper option. The mill burned in 1931, leaving charred remains on the site until the development of the Royal River Park in the early 1980s. In 1971, the Marine Corps Reserve tore down the old factory, before a Navy demolition team used fourteen cases of dynamite to raze the remains. Most of the remaining debris was crushed and used as fill for the park but several remnants of the building are still visible today. References External links Royal River Park – Yarmouth Community Services Royal "River Park hosts Easter egg hunt" – WMTW, YouTube, March 27, 2016
Brandy Pond

Brandy Pond, also known as Bay of Naples Lake, is a small lake in Naples, Maine, United States, that is connected to Long Lake by the Chute River. Brandy Pond is connected to Sebago Lake by the Songo River, which runs through Sebago Lake State Park. To get to Sebago Lake through the Songo River, one must pass through Songo Lock, one of the last remaining hand-operated locks in the country. Brandy Pond is bounded by a commercial (downtown) area called the "causeway" on Rt. 302, an area of homes on the southerly side called Scenic Drive, a golf course on the northern side, as well as many private homes and public campgrounds and condominiums. See also Songo River Queen II References
Breakwater School

Breakwater School is an independent, non-denominational, co-educational school in Portland, Maine. The school currently enrolls up to 180 students from toddler through eighth grade. The sixth through eighth grade program is experiential and integrative, consisting of a series of 6 to 7 week projects completed over the course of the school year. Breakwater was founded as a day care center, named Playtime Haven, by Frank and El Costa in 1956 after their son recovered from a serious illness. As it grew, it moved to a series of different locations in South Portland and Cape Elizabeth, until 1982 when it purchased its current location in Portland. Since then, the school has also been given a 21-acre nature preserve in nearby Cumberland which it uses regularly for field trips as part of the school's Science curriculum. The Executive Director is David Sullivan, previously a Teaching Principal at the Brooklin School in Brooklin, Maine, and the Academic Director is Maggie Lyon. References
Brewer Community School

The Brewer Community School is a K-8 school in Brewer, Maine, United States and is the largest primary school in the state. It replaces the five elementary and middle schools in the city, which were built as early as the 1920s. Its 156,000 sq ft (14,500 m2) area contains 71 classrooms for up to 1,050 pre-K through 8th-grade students. Each of its five wings, representing parts of Brewer's history, contains two grade levels. The design of each wing is based on its theme. The desk chairs in the River wing are blue; the ceiling in the Ice wing is jagged. There are three playgrounds on the campus, all of which are ADA-compliant. The school includes a 488-seat performing arts center. The entire campus was built for approximately $33.4 million. Brewer residents authorized the school in 2007, with 85% of the voters in favor. The school was built on the grounds of the Pendleton Street School, which had previously been condemned. Green design was prominent in the construction. The air circulation recycles heat when possible, and specially-shaped windows, skylights, and solar tubes minimize the use of artificial lighting. Leftover food from the cafeteria will be composted on-site. The school's name was chosen by the Brewer School District Trustees at a meeting on September 1, 2010. References
Îles Birch

Les Îles Birch sont deux îles de la baie de Pleasant dans le Comté de Washington dans le Maine aux États-unis. Les deux îles Birch sont reliées à marée basse. Les îles sont privées et ne comportent qu'une seule résidence. Elles font partie de la ville de Addison. Notes et références (en) Cet article est partiellement ou en totalité issu de l’article de Wikipédia en anglais intitulé « Birch Islands, Maine » (voir la liste des auteurs). Liens externes (en) « Boat Maine USA » Portail du Maine (États-Unis) Portail des îles
Peirce Island

Peirce Island is a historic 27-acre (11 ha) island owned by the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and is connected to adjacent outlying Four Tree Island. It is connected to the mainland by the Peirce Island bridge. The islands are open to the public and have views of salt marsh, tidal pools, rocky cliffs, and meadows as well as the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the South End, three bridges over the Piscataqua River, the "back channel", and a small island toward New Castle, New Hampshire. There is also an outdoor pool, walking paths, playgrounds, and boat launch area. There is a sewer treatment plant on the island. Public amenities include parking, a public boat ramp, walking paths, historical markers, rest room on Four Tree Island only, public pool for summer use, and a small playground. The island is located past the historic Point of Graves Burial Ground over the Peirce Island bridge. Fort Washington was located on the island. More recently, the area was known as a meeting place for gay paramours. Fort Washington and Fort Sullivan were built in 1775 and were named for George Washington and local war hero John Sullivan. Fort Washington was a star-shaped earthwork. Both forts were commanded by Captain Titus Salter (or Salten) during the American Revolution. They were re-garrisoned in the War of 1812 and abandoned after that war. The islands were dog friendly until 2016. See also Prescott Park (New Hampshire), nearby Harbor Defenses of Portsmouth References
Pond Island (Sagadahoc County, Maine)

Pond Island ist eine unbewohnte Insel im Sagadahoc County im US-Bundesstaat Maine. Sie ist lediglich vier Hektar groß und liegt vor der Mündung des Kennebec River. Die Küsten der Insel sind meist felsig, nur im Nordwesten gibt es einen kleinen Sandstrand. Das bei Ebbe trockenfallende Gebiet um die Insel bietet Küstenvögeln hervorragende Möglichkeiten zur Nahrungssuche. Geschichte 1821 wurde ein Leuchtturm auf Pond Island errichtet, der 1855 durch den heute noch aktiven Turm ersetzt wurde. Das Leuchtfeuer wurde 1960 automatisiert, 1973 trat die US Coast Guard die Insel an den Fish and Wildlife Service ab, sie unterhält aber weiterhin den Leuchtturm. Flora und Fauna Die baumlose Insel ist mit verschiedenen Gräsern sowie mit Büschen und Bodendeckern bewachsen und deshalb ein ausgezeichneter Lebensraum für nistende Seevögel. 1996 wurden wieder erfolgreich Fluss-Seeschwalben auf der Insel angesiedelt, 2003 wurden auch brütende Exemplare der gefährdeten Rosenseeschwalben auf der Insel entdeckt. Daneben nisten auch Eiderenten auf Pond Island und während des Vogelzugs ist sie Rastplatz für zahlreiche Zugvögel. Naturschutzgebiet Das Inselgebiet bildet das Pond Island National Wildlife Refuge, ein National Wildlife Refuge in den Vereinigten Staaten. Es grenzt an den Popham Beach State Park. Pond Island ist eines von fünf Gebieten des Maine Coastal Island National Wildlife Refuge. Die Insel darf von September bis Ende März betreten werden, ist aber nur mit Booten erreichbar. Während der Brutzeit von April bis Ende August ist das Betreten verboten. Einzelnachweise Weblinks Internetpräsenz des National Wildlife Refuge
Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited

Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited, operating as ND Paper in the United States (SEHK: 2689) is a publicly listed paper manufacturing company in Mainland China, engaging in the manufacturing of containerboard products which include linerboard, duplex board as well as pulp. Its CEO and largest shareholder is Mrs. Zhang Yin. The company was established in 1995 and is the largest paperboard producer in Asia and one of the largest in the world in terms of production capacity. It has 9 factories in China and Vietnam. It also owns four paper and pulp mills along with a corrugated box plant in the United States, which are part of the US subsidiary, ND Paper. Nine Dragons Paper was listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 3 March 2006. History Since commencing production in 1998 with a 200,000 tonnes kraftliner machine, Nine Dragons has expanded to producing over 13 million tonnes of paper products globally. While many mills globally use forest products for paper production, Nine Dragons primarily uses recycled paper as the raw material source. The company recycles over 10 million tonnes of fiber annually. Today, the company employs over 15,000 employees globally with 9 manufacturing hubs. Notably, the company's Dongguan facility is the world's largest concentrated paper mill with 15 paper machines producing 5.25 million tonnes of products. Many of Nine Dragons' facilities are also supported with in-house power plants, ports, and trucking. The company has power capacity of over 1,400 MW at various production facilities combined. The corporate office for U.S. operations is in Oak Brook, Illinois. The company operates Biron Mill, the Rumford Mill, and operated the Old Town paper mill from 2018 until 2023. References External links Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited
Nine Dragons Paper

Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited ( SEHK: 2689 ) é uma empresa de fabricação de papel listada na China continental, envolvida na fabricação de produtos de papelão para embalagens, que incluem papel cartão, cartão duplex e celulose . Sua CEO e maior acionista é a Sra. Zhang Yin . A empresa foi fundada em 1995 e é a maior produtora de papelcartão da Ásia e uma das maiores do mundo em capacidade de produção. Possui 9 fábricas na China e no Vietnã. Também possui quatro fábricas de papel e celulose, além de uma fábrica de papelão ondulado nos Estados Unidos, que fazem parte da subsidiária norte-americana ND Paper. A Nine Dragons Paper foi listada no Main Board da Bolsa de Valores de Hong Kong em 3 de março de 2006. História Desde o início da produção em 1998 com uma máquina kraftliner de 200.000 toneladas, a Nine Dragons se expandiu para produzir mais de 13 milhões de toneladas de produtos de papel globalmente. Enquanto muitas fábricas em todo o mundo usam produtos florestais para a produção de papel, a Nine Dragons usa principalmente papel reciclado como fonte de matéria-prima. A empresa recicla mais de 10 milhões de toneladas de fibra anualmente. Hoje, a empresa emprega mais de 15.000 funcionários globalmente com 9 centros de produção. Notavelmente, a instalação da empresa em Dongguan é a maior fábrica de papel concentrado do mundo, com 15 máquinas de papel produzindo 5,25 milhões de toneladas de produtos. Muitas das instalações da Nine Dragons também contam com usinas de energia, portos e caminhões internos. A empresa tem capacidade de energia de mais de 1.400 MW em várias instalações de produção combinadas. O escritório corporativo para operações nos Estados Unidos fica em Oak Brook, Illinois . Na listagem das pessoas mais ricas do Brasil de acordo com a revista Forbes, divulgada em 2019, mas os dados atualizados em dezembro de 2022. Com (USD) 1,6 bilhão, Liu Ming Chung de 59 anos da Nine Dragons Paper Ligações externas Nine Dragons Paper no YouTube Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Limited ==Referências==
Brown Memorial Library

Brown Memorial Library is the public library of Clinton, Maine. It is located in an architecturally distinguished 1899-1900 Richardsonian Romanesque building at 53 Railroad Street in the town center. It was donated to the town by William W. Brown, in honor of his parents. The building was designed by architect John Calvin Stevens and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Architecture and history The Brown Memorial Library is located in the village center of Clinton, at the northeast corner of Railroad and Winn Streets. It is a single-story masonry structure, set on an elevated basement and covered by a hip roof. The building is basically rectangular, with a slight projection to the rear, and a polygonal bay projecting from the front right corner. The main entrance is to that projection's left, set in a rounded arch opening, above which is a gabled wall dormer. The exterior uses materials and coloring typical of the Richardsonian style, with pink-toned granite walls and red sandstone trim. The interior is organized with the large reading room to the right of the entrance, the main stacks to the left, and the former librarian's office, now a children's reading room, to the rear. Also at the rear is a small fireproof vault housing the town's archives. The library was a gift to the town by William W. Brown, who provided the land, funds for construction, and a seed collection of books, as well as a small endowment for its maintenance. It was the town's first public library. The building was designed by noted Portland architect John Calvin Stevens, and was completed in 1900. It is one of the state's purest expressions of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, as applied to library buildings. See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Kennebec County, Maine References External links Official website