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Historical Items

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Item 68685

Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1886

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1887-12-19 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 68722

Motto book page, Farmington State Normal School, 1912

Contributed by: Mantor Library at UMF Date: 1912 Location: Farmington Media: Ink on paper

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Item 149590

"Dirigo! A Song to Thee Oh Maine!" sheet music cover, Portland, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1926 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War

For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.

Site Pages

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Changing Times

"How very apt is the motto used by Hampden Academy which came from John Hampden’s home county of Buck’s which is “Vestigia nulla retrorsum”—No…"

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Shipbuilding During and after the Civil War - 1861 to 1900

"Pluribus Unum” (“out of many, one,” the motto that appeared in the Great Seal of the United States of America in 1782) proudly on her stern."

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Lincoln, Maine - That Pioneer Spirit

"… the more than 5,600 residents who take tremendous pride in their small town—residents who truly believe Maine’s motto, “The way life should be!”"