Keywords: Pastor Andrew Wiren
Item 20243
Rev. Andrew Wiren, New Sweden, ca. 1890
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print
Item 20347
New Sweden Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church, ca. 1938
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print
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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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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - The Coming of the Swedes, 1870-73
"The Lutheran pastor, Andrew Wiren, had been in America four years before arriving in New Sweden and had learned English."
