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Historical Items

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Item 26475

View from Treat's Island, Lubec, ca. 1900

Contributed by: An individual through Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Lubec Media: Photographic print

Item 33652

Tidal power project map, Lubec, 1980, 1980

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1980 Location: Lubec Media: Map, ink on paper

Item 33276

Steam ferry, Lubec, ca. 1899

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1899 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard

Online Exhibits

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Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

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The British capture and occupation of Eastport 1814-1818

The War of 1812 ended in December 1814, but Eastport continued to be under British control for another four years. Eastport was the last American territory occupied by the British from the War of 1812 to be returned to the United States. Except for the brief capture of two Aleutian Islands in Alaska by the Japanese in World War II, it was the last time since 2018 that United States soil was occupied by a foreign government.

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Enemies at Sea, Companions in Death

Lt. William Burrows and Commander Samuel Blyth, commanders of the USS Enterprise and the HMS Boxer, led their ships and crews in Battle in Muscongus Bay on Sept. 5, 1813. The American ship was victorious, but both captains were killed. Portland staged a large and regal joint burial.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"… of the social scene, and the members began to treat their time on the island less as a studious endeavor and more as a vacation (and indeed those…"

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Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"The island, through many changes, sometimes hard and bad, still has come to be proven as a beautiful place to visit in the town of Skowhegan."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective - Page 3 of 4

"… were 'managing' for 150 years), and with a diminishment of Tribal sovereignty based on clauses in the Act treating tribes as 'municipalities.'"

My Maine Stories

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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