Keywords: downtown Lewiston
Item 7245
Lisbon Street Lewiston, ca. 1912
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1912 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
Item 7168
Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency
Item 151408
Isaacson residence, Lewiston, 1960
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1960 Location: Lewiston Client: Philip Isaacson Architect: F. Frederick Bruck; F. Frederick Bruck, Architect
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St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's
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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block
"The Lewiston train should have been there a long time before both of the other trains except there was a delay with their flatbeds staying on the…"
