Keywords: The Plains
Item 62841
Map of "The Plains," Waterville, 1911
Contributed by: Waterville Public Library Date: 1911 Location: Waterville; Waterville; Waterville Media: Ink on paper
Item 98598
Sugarloaf Mountain, Dixfield, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Dixfield Media: Postcard
Exhibit
Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
Exhibit
Sagadahoc County through the Eastern Eye
The Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast, Maine. employed photographers who traveled by company vehicle through New England each summer, taking pictures of towns and cities, vacation spots and tourist attractions, working waterfronts and local industries, and other subjects postcard recipients might enjoy. The cards were printed by the millions in Belfast into the 1940s.
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans
"Indeed, there is much hard evidence to support the “theory” that native people were indigenous to Aroostook County."
Site Page
Presque Isle: The Star City - Presque Isle Congregational Church
"It was a plain white building with a bell tower and forty-four pews. The total cost of the church was 4,750 dollars."
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
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.