Keywords: Sending Help
Item 102497
Donation certificate for starving European children, Portland, 1921
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1921-02-01 Location: Portland; New York Media: Ink on paper
Item 59532
Warren Fowler letter seeking help, 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1863 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
Field & Homefront: Bethel during the Civil War
Like many towns, Bethel responded to the Civil War by sending many soldiers and those at the homefront sent aid and supported families. The town grew during the war, but suffered after its end.
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - History of The Cotton Mill
"… machinery to make cotton, so they didn’t have to send it to the northern states. They would make anything that was made of fabric like dresses and…"
Site Page
Lincoln, Maine - MacGregor's Spool Mill
"This way, the company made more money by sending out production themselves. In 1886, it was officially administered as the John MacGregor Corporation."
Story
Importance of Insects in Maine
by Charlene Donahue
Doing Insect surveys with the Maine Entomological Society
Story
Peter Spanos fled the genocide in Turkey to Maine
by anonymous
Peter Spanos fled the Greek genocide in Smyrna in 1922, coming to Maine to work as a fruit peddler
