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Item 20146
Ad for nursery sales agents, Auburn, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Auburn Media: Ink on paper
Item 31260
Removal of Brady after shooting, Bangor, 1937
Contributed by: Bangor Historical Society Date: 1937-10-12 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Establishment of the Troy Town Forest
Seavey Piper, a selectman, farmer, landowner, and leader of the Town of Troy in the 1920s through the early 1950s helped establish a town forest on abandoned farm land in Troy. The exhibit details his work over ten years.
Exhibit
These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.
Site Page
"In September 29, 1796 James Sullivan, an agent for the United States, wanted to hear stories from the elders of the Tribal community about the…"
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - History of Surry
"… in East Surry, Nathaniel Coffin was chosen as an agent to petition that Township #6 be incorporated as a town to be called Peru."
Story
We Are An Ordinary Family
by Catherine
Maine's abolitionists offer an answer to my questions about my family's experiences.
Story
The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
