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Historical Items

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Item 79561

The Thompson Inn in South Bristol Village ca. 1924

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1924 Location: South Bristol Media: Postcard

Item 21207

Josiah Pierce letter concerning visitors, 1825

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1825 Location: Portland; Baldwin Media: Ink on paper

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Item 35286

Fortunes Rocks Beach, Biddeford, ca. 1911

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: circa 1911 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Maine Audubon Society Visitors' Center elevations, Falmouth, 1994-1995

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994–1995 Location: Falmouth Client: Maine Audubon Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Van Dam & Renner/Carol A. Wilson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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Gunpowder for the Civil War

The gunpowder mills at Gambo Falls in Windham and Gorham produced about a quarter of the gunpowder used by Union forces during the Civil War. The complex contained as many as 50 buildings.

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A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915

After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s Adapted from an exhibit at the Abbe Museum ; narrative text by…"

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Lubec, Maine - Links

"… experience and knowledge of community members and visitors to the Lighthouse and Visitor Center, through education and displays, linking the…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - The Civil War/Reconstruction Era as Experienced in Biddeford & Saco - Page 17 of 17

"… tenderly pity them who cannot lock the unwelcome visitor in some who cannot lock the unwelcome visitor in some remote recess, but at whose musings…"

My Maine Stories

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Summers on Peaks
by Anna Greenfield

Memories of being a summer visitor and visiting Peaks Island

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Amato's Italian Sandwiches
by Charles V. Stanhope

Amato's Italian Sandwiches

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Pandemic Chaplaincy
by Rev Judy L Braun

Reflections of a hospice Chaplains encounter with end of life during Coronavirus pandemic 2020-21