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Description
The Eighth Maine Regiment Building on Peaks Island, taken in about 1895. The building was dedicated in 1891 as a memorial to the Eighth Maine Regiment that served in the Civil War.
William M. McArthur of Limington, who was a colonel in the Eighth Maine Regiment, spent $12,000 to build the memorial.
About This Item
- Title: Eighth Maine Regiment Building, Peaks Island, ca. 1895
- Creator: R. Cutler Libby
- Creation Date: circa 1895
- Subject Date: circa 1895
- Location: Peaks Island, Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Local Code: Coll. 423, Box 6/6
- Collection: R. Cutler Libby glass plate negatives
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Eighth Maine Regiment Building (Portland, Peaks Island, Me.)--Photographs
- Memorials
- United States. Army--Maine Infantry Regiment, 8th (1861-1866)
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