Keywords: Early settlers
Item 12933
Wing's Mill Pond settlers' lots, ca. 1795
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1795
Location: Belgrade
Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.
Item 22311
Brita Hedman, New Sweden, ca. 1881
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: New Sweden Media: Electrographic Photograph
Item 151335
The Checkley House, Scarborough, 1895
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1895 Location: Scarborough Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens
Exhibit
Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec
The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.
Exhibit
Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive
"More Permanent Settlers Arrive Two major waves of settlers arrived after 1768 – the first from Gloucester, Massachusetts in addition to James…"
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…
"…then came the settlers… Granite mountains, Mount Desert, 1837Maine Historical Society While exploring Mount Desert as a place “to carry on…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
