Keywords: Moses Farmer
Item 15841
Contributed by: William Fogg Library Date: 1910 Location: Eliot Media: Postcard
Item 6191
Moses Gerrish Farmer, 1820-1893
Contributed by: Eliot Baha'i Archives Date: circa 1860 Location: Eliot Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Advent of Green Acre, A Baha'i Center of Learning
The Green Acre Baha'i School began as Green Acre Conferences, established by Sarah Jane Farmer in Eliot. She later became part of the Baha'i Faith and hosted speakers and programs that promoted peace. In 1912, the leader of the Baha'i Faith, 'Abdu'l-Baha, visited Green Acre, where hundreds saw him speak.
Exhibit
In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age
"In Time and Eternity: Maine Shakers in the Industrial Age 1872-1918" is a series of images that depict in detail the Shakers in Maine during a little explored time period of expansion and change.
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Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"… were mainly impoverished squatters surviving as farmers, hunters, fisherman.Theirs is partly a story of discrimination; they were often referred to…"
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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property
"… 19th century, Phebe’s brothers were fishermen and farmers. Her brother Abraham became the proprietor of a successful shipyard in Ellsworth."
