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Item 25850

Mainers, San Francisco Airport, 1964

Contributed by: Margaret Chase Smith Library Date: 1964-07-12 Location: San Francisco Media: Photographic print

Item 102140

Rufus King, Scarborough, 1815

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1815 Location: Scarborough Media: Print on paper

Online Exhibits

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400 years of New Mainers

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.

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Presidents and Campaigns

Several Mainers have run for president or vice president, a number of presidents, past presidents, and future presidents have had ties to the state or visited here, and, during campaign season, many presidential candidates and their family members have brought their campaigns to Maine.

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Amazing! Maine Stories

These stories -- that stretch from 1999 back to 1759 -- take you from an amusement park to the halls of Congress. There are inventors, artists, showmen, a railway agent, a man whose civic endeavors helped shape Portland, a man devoted to the pursuit of peace and one known for his military exploits, Maine's first novelist, a woman who recorded everyday life in detail, and an Indian who survived a British attack.

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Life on a Tidal River - Four Famous Bangorians

"And as a Mainer, many people from around this area will look up to her for many more years to come. John B."

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Upper Corner businesses, Hampden, ca. 1904

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Introduction

"However, long before these famous Mainers came to Hampden, the first settlers were laying the groundwork and helping create what would one day become…"