Keywords: Fraternal organizations
Item 35266
Fraternal Order of Eagles float, Biddeford, 1916
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1916-09-16 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print
Item 102751
Anthony Petropulos' AHEPA hat, Lewiston, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Lewiston Media: Felt, silk
Item 151026
Westbrook Fraternal Building, Westbrook, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921 Location: Westbrook Client: unknown Architect: John P. Thomas
Item 150968
Pejepscot I.O.O.F. building, Brunswick, ca. 1913
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Location: Brunswick Client: Independent Order of Odd Fellows Architect: Frederick A. Tompson
Exhibit
In Maine, like many other states, a newly formed Ku Klux Klan organization began recruiting members in the years just before the United States entered World War I. A message of patriotism and cautions about immigrants and non-Protestants drew many thousands of members into the secret organization in the early 1920s. By the end of the decade, the group was largely gone from Maine.
Exhibit
This collection of images portrays many buildings in Sanford and Springvale. The images were taken around the turn of the twentieth century.
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3
"… days, the GAR limited its activities merely to fraternal activities. Members soon began discussing politics, and their growing interest in pensions…"
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3
"The Grange is also a fraternal Order of Patrons of Husbandry, hence the "P of H" on the organization's logo."
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
