Search Results

Historical Items

View All Showing 2 of 8 Showing 3 of 8

Item 108757

Survey of land eastern side of No Name Pond, Lewiston, ca. 1800

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1800 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper

Item 9357

Percival Baxter and Katahdin, ca. 1962

Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: circa 1962 Media: Photo transparency

Item 71748

Frye's Leap, Sebago Lake, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Raymond Media: Linen texture postcard

Online Exhibits

View All Showing 2 of 22 Showing 3 of 22

Exhibit

Les Raquetteurs

In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.

Exhibit

Girls playing basketball, Naples, ca. 1930

Summer Camps

Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.

Exhibit

Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Site Pages

View All Showing 2 of 35 Showing 3 of 35

Site Page

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."

Site Page

Copy of Surry and Ellsworth map, ca. 1880

Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"Patten's Bay, Patten's Pond and Patten's Pond Stream were named after him. In Samuel Wasson's Journal of East Surry, he attributes Jonathan Flye, an…"