Pittsfield Historical Society's
History of Pittsfield

What's New Here?

This page tries to help folks who visit this website occassionally and wonder what has been added since their last visit. We will be recording here significant changes with the most recent changes at the top of the list.

25 February 2010

• Added "A Brief History 1960-2000" to the Congregational Church page, plus updated their postal and email addresses.
• Added a link to their website to the Universalist Church page.
• Added photos of the Midway Drive-In Theater's projection house to the Past Businesses Page.

8 January 2010

• Added the "Up Arrows" to the bottom of the menu and to the footer.
• Added "external website" icon [] to all links to external websites, and explained this in "Notes".

December 2009

• Converted entire website from frames to shtml format. This allows the actual path and file names to appear in the browser's location gadget, plus all pages now have a footer with the copyright notice and exact file name and date of last modification. Fixed broken links, and made many small edits and corrections along the way, which of course slowed way down the work of revising the site.
• Added the Pittsfield Town Register 1904. (1.89MB pdf file) which Tom Brown found scanned on Google Books. Also extracted the Town History section from it and set that up as a stand-alone web page.
• Rearranged the menu by creating logical groupings of pages, hopefully making things easier to find. Using styles, removed the underlining from all the website's links, making the menu easier to read. Also moved Google Search gadget to menu column so it will appear on every page.
• Added a "Streets that are no more" section to the Streets Page to explain what happened to Weeks Road, Park St., Forest St., etc.
• Divided the "Mill Pond and Sebasticook River" page into two pages.
• Re-wrote the Schools page, and increased the size of all the thumbnails from 100 px wide to 300 px wide.
• Re-wrote the Streets page, and increased the size of all the thumbnails from 100px wide to 300 px wide.
• Added tool tips to the menus on the index and chapter pages of Pittsfield on the Sebasticook, so that hovering over a chapter number gives you the chapter title and chapter pages.
• Added In-Town and Whole-Town 2009 post-E911 maps to the Maps page. Also added a 1933 USGS topo map of Pittsfield.
• Added an entry for The Pitsfield Examiner newspaper in the Past Businesses page.
• Under People, added a photo of Col. Walter Morill in his page.
• Under Parks, reorganized the index page and added a page for the Union Trotting Park.
• Under Histories, added a History of Pittsfield from the 1886 Gazetteer of the State of Maine.
• On the People of Note Page, added Willard W. Lehr.

24 November 2008

• Added the Hamilton House to the Houses Page. Thanks to Tom Brown for those photos. Also increased the size of the thumbnail images on that page.

5 April 2007

• Added Bio Pages for people listed on the People Page for William Dobson, Albion P. McMaster, George H. Hunter. Also linked to many of these pages from various places in the Past Businesses Page.

18 March 2007

• In Pittsfield On The Sebasticook, scanned the rest of the photo pages and added these to the web pages of the book.
• On the Past Businesses Page, added half a dozen new photos and a few new businesses, plus a few internal links within the page.

12 January, 2007

• On the Woolen Industry page, added a page of photos of the Woolen Mills.

10 January, 2007

• Added two more photos and more descriptions with links to the Wide Views page.
• Added more photos to the Universalist Church Page.

8 January, 2007

• Added airmail envelope from the first airmail flight from Pittsfield, and an excellent aerial photo of the airport to the Airport Page.
• Added the aerial photo of the airport to the Water Works Page since it also showed a good view of the water treatment lagoons.
• Added two more Union Hall photos to the Municipal Building Page.

7 January, 2007

• Expanded the Credits Section on the Main Index page.
• Added a page dedicated to our Woolen Mill Photos collection, and linked to it from appropriate locations.
• Added several new photos and some upgraded photos to the Past Businesses Page. (American Woolen Mill, Libby's Pharmacy, Lou's Texaco, Tilton House, Top Gas Station, Wirthmore Feed Store)
• Added some new photos to the Lancey House Page.
• Added a Sulky Room menu to the Lancey House Interior Page.
• Added WCTU program from 1910 to the Organizations Page.

20 December, 2006

• Added a page for the Old Section of the Village Cemetery generated from photos of a few of the headstones.
• Added a Pittsfield Advertiser banner to the Past Businesses Page.
• Added a link on the home page to the Mid Maine History discussion group.

1 December, 2006

• Added a Mysteries Page to see if we can get some buildings identified and questions answered.
• Added a 1972 photo of the Pinnacle water tower and a link to the story of its demolition to the Water Works page.