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Historical Items

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Item 103874

Pepperell Mill #3 brick tunnel, Biddeford, 2015

Contributed by: Biddeford Mills Museum Date: circa 1854 Location: Biddeford Media: Digital Image

Item 40278

Tunnel construction, West Buxton, 1926

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: 1926 Location: Buxton Media: Glass Negative

Item 104629

Exit 3 Maine Turnpike, Kennebunk, ca. 1972

Contributed by: Maine Turnpike Authority Date: circa 1972 Location: Kennebunk Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Promoting Rockland Through a Stereopticon, 1875

Frank Crockett and photographer J.P. Armbrust took stereo views of Rockland's downtown, industry, and notable homes in the 1870s as a way to promote tourism to the town.

Exhibit

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.

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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 Pages

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor and Social Reform Movements of the 1800s-1900s

"In the tunnel were reportedly old clothes and other items which may have been used to disguise the slaves as they made their way to Canada."

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 1 of 4

"… birds, and microscopic plants and animals drift with tide and feed siphon eaters, such as clams, and worms tunnel through the root-laced mud.”"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 2 of 4

"… garrison, so the French tried to undermine it by tunneling underneath from the bank below. Heavy rain caused the soil to give way and the exposed…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima