Keywords: Know Nothings
Item 5283
First phase, burning of the Old South Church, Bath, 1854
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1854-07-06 Location: Bath Media: Oil on canvas
Item 5208
Third phase, burning of Old South Church, Bath, 1854
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1854-07-06 Location: Bath Media: Oil on canvas
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: A Civil War Soldier from Skowhegan
Alexander Crawford a soldier from Skowhegan, was born in 1839 on a farm on the Dudley Corner Road in Skowhegan. He served in the Civil War and returned to Skowhegan to run the family farm.
Site Page
Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Beniah Harding
"… he’d let me in, so I went on a strict diet of nothing but lettuce and water. After 2 weeks I lost 9.5 pounds, he told me I was a half pound left…"
Site Page
Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park
"Riverside Park Text by Paula Sloane “Nothing Doing Anywhere Else - Everything Doing Here” Riverside Park stage, Hampden, ca."
Story
Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker
Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s
Story
My Story of Trauma
by Anonymous (Maine Correction Center)
The process of being incarcerated is traumatic. This is my story.
