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Historical Items

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Item 101441

Order to stop selling insurance, Bangor, 1872

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Date: 1872-11-12 Location: Bangor; Boston Media: Ink on paper

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Item 34500

New Haskell Silk Mill, Westbrook, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Westbrook Media: Photographic print

Item 79334

View at Friendship, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Friendship Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Friendship Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Gunpowder for the Civil War

The gunpowder mills at Gambo Falls in Windham and Gorham produced about a quarter of the gunpowder used by Union forces during the Civil War. The complex contained as many as 50 buildings.

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Guarding Maine Rail Lines

Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.

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Music in Maine - Music Education

"… States from 1931 to 1934, until the camp went bankrupt during the Great Depression. The Eastern Music Camp averaged 110 co-ed campers and twenty…"

Site Pages

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Lincoln, Maine - Gordon's Fox Farms

"Gordon went bankrupt in 1936, never to be open again under the Gordon name.   Jeannette King Interview on Fox Farms Scott Sibley “Create a ‘why’…"

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"… gauge rail system that was laid, came from a bankrupt railroad between Bedford and Billerica, MA."