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Historical Items

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Item 1445

Rumford Falls Sulphite Mill, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Rumford Media: Photographic print

Item 110958

Manuscript map of Lake Ontario, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1815 Media: Ink on paper

Item 112091

Pejepscot Company Records, Volume 9, 1797

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1797 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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Gifts From Gluskabe: Maine Indian Artforms

According to legend, the Great Spirit created Gluskabe, who shaped the world of the Native People of Maine, and taught them how to use and respect the land and the resources around them. This exhibit celebrates the gifts of Gluskabe with Maine Indian art works from the early nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries.

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Holding up the Sky: Wabanaki people, culture, history, and art

Learn about Native diplomacy and obligation by exploring 13,000 years of Wabanaki residence in Maine through 17th century treaties, historic items, and contemporary artworks—from ash baskets to high fashion. Wabanaki voices contextualize present-day relevance and repercussions of 400 years of shared histories between Wabanakis and settlers to their region.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… Hall in New York and even further west at Fort Niagara. The fundamental treaty that made fixing the international border such a long and difficult…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Regional and Town History

"… Historical Society The highest waterfall east of Niagara One of the world’s only moontide springs Mines that once produced some of the nations’s…"