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Historical Items

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Item 11723

"Maquoit," Brunswick, 1747

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1747-07-06 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

Item 11714

Map of Brunswick, 1725

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1725-04-08 Location: Brunswick Media: Ink on paper

Item 34548

Martha Libby, Brunswick, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1870 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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For the Union: Civil War Deaths

More than 9,000 Maine soldiers and sailors died during the Civil War while serving with Union forces. This exhibit tells the stories of a few of those men.

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The Devil and the Wilderness

Anglo-Americans in northern New England sometimes interpreted their own anxieties about the Wilderness, their faith, and their conflicts with Native Americans as signs that the Devil and his handmaidens, witches, were active in their midst.

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Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps

The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.

Site Pages

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… (1754-1824), loyalist of Massachusetts and New Brunswick. Both men served on multiple border commissions, and their impact was extended since each…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… sides) and to preserve an overland route from New Brunswick to Quebec (for the British). The costs to raise and support the surveying teams in…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 2 of 6

"… claim (later called the Waldo Patent) to the west of Penobscot Bay. For these proprietors and others like them who spearheaded smaller schemes…"

My Maine Stories

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Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks

How I became a country and bluegrass musician

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An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021