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Historical Items

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Item 18525

Sailor the dog rings fog bell, Wood Island Light, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 18526

Sailor, family dog, Wood Island Lighthouse, ca. 1903

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1903 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 16416

Wood Island Lighthouse dwelling house and barn, Biddeford, ca. 1859

Contributed by: Friends of Wood Island Lighthouse Date: circa 1859 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Best Friends: Mainers and their Pets

Humans and their animal companions began sharing lives about twenty-five thousand years ago, when, according to archaeological evidence and genetic studies, wolves approached people for food scraps. As agriculture grew and people began storing grains around ten thousand years ago, wild cats helped keep rodents at bay and feline populations thrived by having a steady food source. Over time, these animals morphed into the dogs and cats we know today, becoming our home companions, our pets.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

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Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

Site Pages

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Years on Mt. Desert Island

"… the town of Mount Desert which included the outer islands, there were 132 heads of families for a total of approximately 648 individual persons…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Using tools made of stone, bone, wood, and natural plant and animal fibers, they harvested an incredibly diverse range of mammals, birds and fish…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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