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Pledge to Cape Elizabeth Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association, 1897

Contributed by: South Portland Historical Society Date: 1897-07-01 Location: South Portland Media: Paper

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Soldiers' monument, Lewiston, 1868

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1868-02-28 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper

5 Monument Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Mary Rothchild Use: Dwelling - Three Family

26 Monument Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Yetta Zimmerman Use: Dwelling - Single family

Margaret Payson Waterman monument, Gorham, 1928

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1928 Location: Gorham Client: John A. Waterman Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Plan of store in Clapp Building at 26 Monument Square, Portland, ca. 1922

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1922 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: Frederick A. Tompson

Monuments to Civil War Soldiers

Maine supplied a huge number of soldiers to the Union Army during the Civil War -- some 70,000 -- and responded after the war by building monuments to soldiers who had served and soldiers who had died in the epic American struggle.

A Day for Remembering

Most societies have had rituals or times set aside to honor ancestors, those who have died and have paved the way for the living. Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, is the day Americans have set aside for such remembrances.

Historic Hallowell - One of Many Monuments

"One of Many Monuments National Monument to the Forefathers model, Hallowell, ca. 1889Hubbard Free Library One well known example of Hallowell…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Soldiers' Monument, Bangor, 1864

"… in Bangor, drew this illustration of the monument and wrote in the Scrap and Sketch Book he began in 1864 that subscriptions paid for the monument…"

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds

What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.

World War I and Our Community

Grade Level: 9-12 Content Area: Social Studies
Learn about World War I using primary sources from Maine Memory Network and the Library of Congress.