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Historical Items

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Item 6524

Popham Beach, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Popham Beach Media: Photoprint

Item 1165

View of Fort Kent, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Fort Kent Media: Photographic print

Item 6526

Popham Beach, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Popham Beach Media: Photoprint

Online Exhibits

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400 years of New Mainers

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.

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

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South Portland's Wartime Shipbuilding

Two shipyards in South Portland, built quickly in 1941 to construct cargo ships for the British and Americans, produced nearly 270 ships in two and a half years. Many of those vessels bore the names of notable Mainers.

Site Pages

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"… the Covered Bridge was being built at the East Village and New Portland would have been supporting the efforts of the Civil War, probably an…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Soldiers Of The Civil War

"Edward Fentiman was born in England in 1842. He was in Moscow, Maine, when he enlisted into the war on August 14, 1864."

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 4 of 4

"In 1793, the New England Conference of the Methodist Church was held at Lynn, Massachusetts, and on August 1, 1793, appointed Rev."

My Maine Stories

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Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

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21st and 19th century technology and freelance photography
by Brendan Bullock

My work is a mash-up of cutting edge technology and 19th century chemistry techniques.

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A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker

Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference