Keywords: Londoners’ Island
Item 152268
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Maine; New Hampshire Media: Ink on paper
Item 9171
Eastport and Passamaquoddy Bay from Lubec, 1839
Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1839 Location: Eastport; Maine Media: Color lithograph from oil painting
Exhibit
The British capture and occupation of Eastport 1814-1818
The War of 1812 ended in December 1814, but Eastport continued to be under British control for another four years. Eastport was the last American territory occupied by the British from the War of 1812 to be returned to the United States. Except for the brief capture of two Aleutian Islands in Alaska by the Japanese in World War II, it was the last time since 2018 that United States soil was occupied by a foreign government.
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.
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Building Community and Commerce
"This was barely 30 years after Somes's arrival. By 1800 people were building schools and churches all over the island."
Site Page
"… business centered around the representation of London firms in the colonies. Because of his success, Jefferies role in the Pejepscot proprietors…"
Story
Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey
Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
