Keywords: Bangor Fair
Item 18302
Military family from Dow Field at the Bangor State Fair, 1944
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1944-08-01 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Item 40162
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1902-03-20 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment
Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.
Exhibit
Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and the Civil War
"Bangor Soldiers and Prisoner of War Camps Bangor residents in other Maine Company's like Pvt. Alden Ellis, Lieutenant George Anson and George Varney…"
Site Page
Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s
"During the 1800's a fair number of African Americans made Bangor their home. John Holyoke, a man from Brewer, was another abolitionist from the…"
Story
Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler
How hunting has impacted my life
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
