Keywords: Early American justice
Item 152231
Judge David Sewall's charge to the Grand Jury, Portland, 1789
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1789
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 8 images.
Item 20114
Falmouth Gazette and Weekly Advertiser, 1785
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1785 Location: Falmouth; Portland Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Exhibit
A City Awakes: Arts and Artisans of Early 19th Century Portland
Portland's growth from 1786 to 1860 spawned a unique social and cultural environment and fostered artistic opportunity and creative expression in a broad range of the arts, which flowered with the increasing wealth and opportunity in the city.
Site Page
"By the early 1900’s, the state of Maine, including costal towns like Phippsburg, looked to tourism and development as way to dig out of the state’s…"
Site Page
Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Kennebec Proprietors Biographies
"… Clerk of Common Pleas for the Port of Plymouth, Justice of Peace for Plymouth, and Deputy Collector for Port of Boston."
Story
The Equal Freedom to Marry
by Mary L Bonauto
Marriage Equality, Maine, and the U.S. Supreme Court
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Lesson Plan
Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride Companion Curriculum
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
These lesson plans were developed by Maine Historical Society for the Seashore Trolley Museum as a companion curriculum for the historical fiction YA novel "Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride" by Jean. M. Flahive (2019). The novel tells the story of Millie Thayer, a young girl who dreams of leaving the family farm, working in the city, and fighting for women's suffrage. Millie's life begins to change when a "flying carpet" shows up in the form of an electric trolley that cuts across her farm and when a fortune-teller predicts that Millie's path will cross that of someone famous. Suddenly, Millie finds herself caught up in events that shake the nation, Maine, and her family. The lesson plans in this companion curriculum explore a variety of topics including the history of the trolley use in early 20th century Maine, farm and rural life at the turn of the century, the story of Theodore Roosevelt and his relationship with Maine, WWI, and the flu pandemic of 1918-1920.
