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Historical Items

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Item 16479

Aluminum Maple Syrup Carafe, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Houlton; Chicago Media: Aluminum

Item 36100

Peacock’s Best brand sardine can, Lubec, pre-1963, ca. 1960

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1960 Location: Lubec Media: Aluminum

Item 34703

Clam digging, Scarborough, 1961

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: 1961 Location: Scarborough Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Maine Sweets: Confections and Confectioners

From chocolate to taffy, Mainers are inventive with our sweet treats. In addition to feeding our sweet tooth, it's also an economic driver for the state.

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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

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Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

Site Pages

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

"… named "The Red House" (because of its red aluminum siding installed in the 1960s) on the former site of the big barn and he and his family moved in…"

My Maine Stories

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Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman