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Historical Items

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Item 29293

Descendants of Rev. Jonathan Fisher, Blue Hill, 1888

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1888 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photographic print

Item 33890

Fisher daughter, 1822

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1822 Location: Blue Hill Media: Oil on canvas

Item 19163

Woodblock Print by Jonathan Fisher, 1833

Contributed by: Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. Date: 1833 Location: Blue Hill Media: Woodblock Print

Tax Records

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Item 84346

Fisher property, W. Side Whitehead Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Harriet A. Fisher Use: Dwelling

Item 84352

Fisher property, E. Side Whitehead Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Harriet A. Fisher Use: Storage & Summer Dwelling

Item 89813

Fisher property, W. Side Centennial Street, Peaks Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Cornelia U. Fisher Use: Dwelling

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109603

Block for Mr. J.H. Fisher, Lewiston, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Lewisston Client: J. H. Fisher Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109715

Block for Atwood, Fisher and Cressey (Kora Temple), Lewiston, 1895-1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1895–1896 Location: Lewiston Client: Atwood, Fisher & Cressey Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Wiscasset's Arctic Connection

Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.

Exhibit

A Celebration of Skilled Artisans

The Maine Charitable Mechanic Association, an organization formed to promote and support skilled craftsmen, celebrated civic pride and members' trades with a parade through Portland on Oct. 8, 1841 at which they displayed 17 painted linen banners with graphic and textual representations of the artisans' skills.

Exhibit

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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Site Page

Blue Hill, Maine - Jonathan Fisher: Unlocking the Person Beyond the Parson

"By Andrea Hendrix and Caroline Werth, Jonathan Fisher Memorial Jonathan Fisher was born in New Braintree, Massachusetts in the year 1768, one of…"

Site Page

Blue Hill, Maine - A New Look at an Old Painting

"by Tim Garrity The Reverend Jonathan Fisher's "Morning in Blue Hill Village, Sept. 1824" is one of Maine's oldest landscape paintings."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Adelaide Pearson

"… for Blue Hill's growth as a cultural center after the Second World War. Adelaide Pearson with violin, 1894Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Catching live bait with Grandfather
by Randy Randall

We never bought live bait for fishing. Grandfather caught all the minnows and shiners we needed.

Story

Cleaning Fish or How Grandfather and Grandmother got by
by Randy Randall

Grandfather and Grandmother subsisted on the fish Grandfather caught, not always legally.

Story

How Mom caught Dad
by Jane E. Woodman

How Ruth and Piney met in Wilton and started a life together