Keywords: Seven Years' War
Item 22546
John Winslow, Boston, ca. 1765
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1770 Media: Etching
Item 22519
Nathaniel Sparhawk to William Pepperrell on war, 1755
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1755 Location: Boston Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
In Canada During the Civil War
One surviving letter from the family of Francis Pratt to the young man who was in Canada in 1865 suggests that going to Canada to escape military service during the Civil War was not unheard of. The letter also suggests money was removed to Canada to protect it.
Exhibit
For the Union: Civil War Deaths
More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.
Site Page
Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 3 of 4
"The seven-mile stretch of beach from the easterly tip of Pine Point through Old Orchard Beach to Hill’s Beach in Biddeford was often used."
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - War - Page 2 of 2
"War As the Civil War began in 1861, the ambrotype was joined by the tintype as a form of photography "popular with soldiers and camp photographers…"
Story
The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona
Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
