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Historical Items

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Item 6712

Gerry's Mill goes downstream, Lovell, 1953

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: 1953 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print

Item 6713

Kezar River flood, Lovell, 1953

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: 1953-03-27 Location: Lovell; Lovell Media: Photoprint

Item 6714

Kezar River flood, Lovell, 1953

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: 1953-03-27 Location: Lovell Media: Photoprint

Online Exhibits

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High Water

Melting snow, ice, warmer temperatures, and rain sometimes bring floods to Maine's many rivers and streams. Floods are most frequent in the spring, but can occur at any season.

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

Site Pages

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Surry by the Bay - Broadway by the Bay

"Carrey. Her time in Surry was the launching point of her career and she went on to work on Broadway, in television and in movies."

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Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"… by the Kennebec Shoe Company from 1934 to 1953.  Once they moved out, the abandoned building was torn down in May, 1955, and a skating rink took…"

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Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"Later, in 1953, nobody at Garland Street would have guessed that Billy Cohen, now a seventh grader, would be the future Secretary of Defense under…"