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Keywords: Land Survey

Historical Items

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Item 108768

Survey of lot no. 90, Durham, ca. 1790

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1790 Location: Durham Media: Ink on paper

Item 108756

Plot adjacent to Peables' fence, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Media: Ink on paper

Item 108753

Plan of the Bracket Lots, Androscoggin County, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Durham Media: Ink on paper
This record contains 2 images.

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 150865

Silver Lake section of Summer Haven, Augusta, 1927

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1927 Location: Augusta Client: Recreation Land Co. Architect: E. F. Pooler

Item 151800

Mori residence, North Haven, 2016-2018

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2016–2018 Location: North Haven Client: Toshiko Mori Architect: LaBranche Land Surveys

Item 151818

Steele residence, York, 1995-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1995–2003 Location: York Client: Sandra Steele Architect: Philemon Sturges Architect, Inc.

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Exhibit

The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

Site Pages

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Site Page

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Barclay Collection that contains documents, land surveys, and maps dating from 1764 to 1893. The collection was mostly gathered by British…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 4 of 5

"Exploring survey, St. Croix River to Great Waggansis, 1817Maine Historical Society Growing border tension and violence from 1827 to 1841, especially…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca. 1840Maine Historical Society Maine’s international border was the most…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue

Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society

Story

Welimahskil: Sweet grass
by Suzanne Greenlaw

Weaving Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and western science around Sweetgrass