Evidence

Primary sources

Everything this history claims should be traceable to something on this page. Where a source is good for one thing and bad for another, the record says so.

plan · ca. 1888[DOC]

Plan of Cushing Island

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

map · ca. 1888[DOC]

Map of Cushing Island

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

photograph · ca. 1900[DOC]

Ottawa House, Cushing Island

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

painting · ca. 1870[DOC]

Cushing Island, Portland Harbor

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

photograph · ca. 1914[DOC]

District-Wireless Station, Cushing Island, Maine

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

photograph · Undated[DOC]

Coastal gun and crew, Fort Levett

Maine Memory Network / Maine Historical Society

postcard · ca. 1928[DOC]

White Head, Cushing Island, Portland Harbor, ca. 1928

Boston Public Library

Published & documentary sources

book · 1886
An Historical Sketch, Guide Book, and Prospectus of Cushing's Island
William M. Sargent
book · 1628
A Voyage into New England
Christopher Levett
book · 1674
An Account of Two Voyages to New-England
John Josselyn
document · 1898–1945
Fort Levett construction and armament records
U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps
document
The Harbor Defenses of Portland (history with reproduced plans)
Coast Defense Study Group
document
National Archives Fort Topical Index (Fort Levett / 'Fort Levitt, ME')
photograph · c. 1900
Ottawa House, Cushing Island, c. 1900 (glass negative)
plan · c. 1883
Architectural drawing, house on Cushing Island
John Calvin Stevens
document
SAH Archipedia — Cushing Island
Society of Architectural Historians
book
Portland in the Past
William Goold
document
Maine Historic Preservation Commission — prehistoric archaeology reports