Keywords: Know-Nothing Party
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
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.
Story
Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker
Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s
