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Keywords: Calais

Historical Items

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Item 21200

Calais Street Railway Car #3, Calais, 1909

Contributed by: St. Croix Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Calais Media: Postcard

Item 21197

Calais Street Railway car on Main Street, Calais, ca. 1900

Contributed by: St. Croix Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Calais Media: Photographic print

Item 75115

Class of 1931, Calais Academy, 1931

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1931 Location: Calais Media: Contact print from 5x7-inch negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150142

Arthur Unobskey apartment layout, Calais, 1948

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948 Location: Calais Client: Arthur Unobskey Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150158

Dead River Company service station alterations, Calais, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Calais Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 150473

Plans of Convent School fo Father Conlon, Calais, 1884-1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1884–1885 Location: Calais Client: Conlon, Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town

Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.

Exhibit

Trolley Travel

Trolleys were the cleanest and most efficient means of mass transit Maine has ever known.

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Music in Maine - HEAR

"… Anthropologist Jesse Walter Fewkes traveled to Calais, Maine in March 1890 to test inventor Thomas Edison’s new phonograph in field conditions."

Site Pages

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St. Croix Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"… in the 1760s along the coast between Castine and Calais. The population of colonial America was doubling with each generation."

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"The Third Battalion was located in Calais with its Company #11 in Eastport. These were most likely the men who were in the parade in Lubec."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Translating 1890 Passamaquoddy Wax Cylinders
by Dwayne Tomah

Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) discusses the importance of 1890 recordings

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.