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Historical Items

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Item 15330

Alder Stream Falls, Dead River, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Lantern slide

Item 16540

Map of the Rangeley Lake and Dead River regions, 1885

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1885 Media: Ink on paper

Item 148977

Map of Dead River Plantation, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Dead River Plantation Media: Ink on linen

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109215

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 109231

Dead River Company service station alterations, Houlton, 1946

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1946 Location: Houlton Client: Dead River Company Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Walter Wyman and River Power

Walter Wyman's vision to capture the power of Maine's rivers to produce electricity led to the formation of Central Maine Power Co. and to a struggle within the state over what should happen to the power produced by the state's natural resources.

Exhibit

The Barns of the St. John River Valley: Maine's Crowning Jewels

Maine's St. John River Valley boasts a unique architectural landscape. A number of historical factors led to the proliferation of a local architectural style, the Madawaska twin barn, as well as a number of building techniques rarely seen elsewhere. Today, these are in danger of being lost to time.

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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.

Site Pages

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"The G-men were closing in on Brady and Shaffer fast. Machine guns were still pelting the street with bullets. Brady was hit and fell dead in the…"

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Lincoln, Maine - Aaron Woodbury

"… would like to meet him, but I can’t because he’s dead, so I will have to do with what I learned. Works Cited Goodwin, Kathryn B."

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Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill

"(Later) The mill is dead, burned to the ground, at least mostly. Thankfully we got there soon enough to save the woods and some of the lumber, but…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Story

Memories of a mission in Vietnam, January 11, 1970
by SGT. Ronald Santerre, 1st Calvary Division

Extracting villagers from the Viet Cong in Vietnam

Story

Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn circa 1960
by David Rollins

The creation of Carrabassett Village and the Red Stallion Inn at Sugarloaf USA