Maine Memory Network

Home of Benjamin Rogers, Jaffa, Palestine, ca. 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1866 Location: Jaffa; Jonesport Media: Photographic print

Tented settlement, Jaffa, Palestine, 1866

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1866 Location: Jonesport Media: Photographic print

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.

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.

Lubec, Maine - Myron Avery, Lubec, and the Appalachian Trail

"… yearbook forecast a political career, the Class Prophecy portraying Myron as a judge who “evidently followed the profession of his heart.” Class…"

Life on a Tidal River - William S. Cohen, The Man and the School

"… not predicted where he would go in the 1955 class prophecy. However, no one could have guessed that he would rise up above the others to become one…"