Wabanaki families, farmers, fishermen, lobstermen, summer rusticators, and island businesses shaped this community through everyday work, a wartime Navy fuel depot, and the 1993 vote that made Long Island Maine’s first new town since 1925.
Come explore the history they left us.
The people who made
Long Island, Maine.
Artistic interpretation of a 1957 photograph of Elliott “Pood” Ricker lobstering. The image has been colorized, and the canvas expanded with an altered horizon and sky.
The original photo was a gift from Sharon Doughty Marr.
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Doughty’s Landing, showing passengers heading toward land and shoreline structures, before World War II. 1930–1943. Gift of Barbara Blaisdell. 1996.53.3
Houses on Garfield Street prior to World War II. Left to right: Long Island Community Club, Joseph and Edith Woodbury house, Clint and Gladys Johnson house. 1920–1942. Gift of Phyllis Greene. 1996.14.36
Maude M. Morey at anchor off the east end of Long Island during World War II, with tracks used to load ballast after it drifted as a fixed obstruction. 1941–1943. Gift of Joel Eastman (from National Archives). 1996.60.3
“Bert” I. Albert Johnson and Captain Frank Johnson with a swordfish, left to right. 1930–1950. Gift of Donald Rich. 2009.37.10
Capt. Antonio Gomez with a sea turtle on Ponce's Landing. Long Island Community Club at the corner of Garfield is on the left, with the Spa in the background. Date unknown. Gift of Phyllis Greene. 1996.14.27
Ferry “Aucococisco II” with Little Chebeague Landing and World War II buildings on shore in the background. 1952. Gift of Roy Ferguson Jr. 1998.74.5