Keywords: L. C. Bates Museum
Item 55200
L.C.Bates Museum, Fairfield, ca. 1945
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1945 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Item 55203
L.C. Bates Museum Mineral Collection, Fairfield, ca. 1955
Contributed by: L.C. Bates Museum / Good Will-Hinckley Homes Date: circa 1955 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
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Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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L.C. Bates Museum/Good Will-Hinckley
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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Porter Family
"He went to Strong schools and to Bates College (called the Maine State Seminary until 1863) from 1862–1863."
