Keywords: Monticello
Item 14629
Jewell Brand potato bag, Monticello, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1960 Location: Monticello Media: Paper
Item 15391
Bag O'Gold brand potato bag, Monticello, ca. 1970
Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: circa 1970 Location: Monticello Media: Paper
Exhibit
Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.
Exhibit
Princeton: Woods and Water Built This Town
Princeton benefited from its location on a river -- the St. Croix -- that was useful for transportation of people and lumber and for powering mills as well as on its proximity to forests.
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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Architect James Overlock
"Both Mount Vernon and Monticello have this feature. Overlock built many grand Italianate homes throughout Thomaston as well as earlier styles, and…"