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Group in Front of Hotel Coburn, about 1895

Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1895 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print

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Bookplates Honor Annie Louise Cary

A summer resident of Wayne collected more than 3,000 bookplates to honor Maine native and noted opera singer Annie Louise Cary and to support the Cary Memorial Library.

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George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator

George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 1 of 5

"Similarly, as historian Emerson Baker observed, “the Kennebec Proprietors desperately sought” to secure their own claims against “the opposing claims…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Representative Industries of Cumberland and North Yarmouth

"… Ralph Kelley, Benjamin Webster, Jeremiah Baker and Samuel Fisher. Some vessels were built in the vicinity of Walnut Hill and hauled by oxen in the…"