Keywords: Woodlawn Cemetery
Item 100454
Zebulon and Ida Knight, Scarborough, ca. 1910
Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print
Item 99404
Woodbury K. Dana's grave, Westbrook, 1924
Contributed by: Walker Memorial Library Date: 1924-05-18 Location: Westbrook Media: Photograph, ink on paper
Exhibit
Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
