Keywords: Skowhegan Soldiers
Item 21618
Skowhegan Free Public Library and Elm Street, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Skowhegan Free Public Library through Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1940 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 7322
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1917-04-01 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: A Civil War Soldier from Skowhegan
Alexander Crawford a soldier from Skowhegan, was born in 1839 on a farm on the Dudley Corner Road in Skowhegan. He served in the Civil War and returned to Skowhegan to run the family farm.
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Benedict Arnold's March Through Skowhegan
Benedict Arnold arrived in Skowhegan on October 4th, 1775, and it was here that Arnold received his first offer of help from the colonists. Joseph Weston and his sons helped Benedict Arnold and his army cross over the Skowhegan Falls, but Joseph later got a severe cold from exposure and died of a fever on Oct.16th. His sons went back to the family home along the Kennebec for they were the first family to settle in Old Canaan or what is now Skowhegan.
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area John Gray, Fryeburg, ca. 1980Fryeburg Historical Society by Dana Bulba The Abenaki Native…"
Site Page
Skowhegan Community History - Benedict Arnold's March
"Dead wrong. Lead canteen left on Skowhegan Island by one of Arnold's soldiers X The Dead River was mostly all swamp, hard to pass through…"
Story
I have thought about Vietnam almost every day for 48 years
by Ted Heselton
Working as a heavy equipment operator in Vietnam
