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Historical Items

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Item 100645

Desert of Maine, Freeport, ca. 1936

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1936 Location: Freeport Media: Photographic print

Item 75150

Albany Basin waterfall, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: Albany Twp Media: Photographic print

Item 33627

East Blue Hill Granite Quarry, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paper

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: A Friend in Need!

Sometime in the 1920s a 700 hundred pound moose fell through the ice, likely between Norridgewock and Skowhegan. She was rescued by a game warden and another man. Here is the story.

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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

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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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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… began to form many thousands of years ago when glaciers from the last ice age receded as the climate warmed."

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Rumford Area Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 2 of 4

"… turning south along the length of Long Island glaciers left exposed a rich vein of blue-gray granite."