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Historical Items

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Item 14389

Wooden Water Pipe, ca. 1850

Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: circa 1850 Location: Bangor Media: Wood

Item 17943

German pipe, New Sweden, ca. 1870

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: New Sweden Media: Wood with porcelain bowl

Item 17670

Wooden Bridge, Houlton, 1885

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1885 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

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Rebecca Usher: 'To Succor the Suffering Soldiers'

Rebecca Usher of Hollis was 41 and single when she joined the Union nursing service at the U.S. General Hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania. Her time there and later at City Point, Virginia, were defining experiences of her life.

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Lincoln County through the Eastern Eye

The Penobscot Marine Museum’s photography collections include nearly 50,000 glass plate negatives of images for "real photo" postcards produced by the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Company of Belfast. This exhibit features postcards from Lincoln County.

Site Pages

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Maine Irish Heritage Center

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Historic Hallowell - The Vaughan Stream & Sawmills

"The way this worked was water behind a dam went into a pipe and a tube called a Penstock. While it was in this tube, the water was so heavy that it…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More on the Old Ell

"… water was a seasonal affair through above-ground pipes; in the winter one needed to fetch fresh water by taking buckets down to the brook next to…"