Keywords: Captain Drew
Item 79303
Captain Lewy steamboat, Princeton, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Princeton Media: Photographic print
Item 100502
James Goff affidavit on Ebenezer Cole pension request, Danville, ca. 1848
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1848 Location: Danville Media: Ink on paper
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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.
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Mainers have been held prisoners in conflicts fought on Maine and American soil and in those fought overseas. In addition, enemy prisoners from several wars have been brought to Maine soil for the duration of the war.
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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII
"… short lived, however; the bounty of land out West drew away many Maine farmers, and the Civil War (1860-1864) marked an end to the age of East…"
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Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men
"One, Captain John Drew, adopted the pen name “Kennebecker” and for 17 years wrote a popular column about life at sea for the Boston Journal."
