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Historical Items

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Item 22391

Tory Hill Meeting House, Buxton, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Buxton Media: Glass negative

Item 26613

Thomaston Academy and Congregational Meeting House, Thomaston, ca. 1855

Contributed by: Thomaston Historical Society Date: circa 1855 Location: Thomaston Media: Engraving, lithograph

Item 6711

First Meeting House, Lovell, ca. 1939

Contributed by: Lovell Historical Society Date: circa 1939 Location: Lovell Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 67821

Assessor's Record, 81 Oak Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Friends Meeting House Use: Church

Item 65231

77 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Raffaele Frascone Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 65229

73-75 Newbury Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: David Finkelman Use: Apartments

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Great Cranberry Island's Preble House

The Preble House, built in 1827 on a hilltop over Preble Cove on Great Cranberry Island, was the home to several generations of Hadlock, Preble, and Spurling family members -- and featured in several books.

Exhibit

Student Exhibit: The Story of the Heywood Tavern

The story of the Heywood Tavern in Skowhegan.

Exhibit

Otisfield's One-Room Schoolhouses

Many of the one-room schoolhouses in Otisfield, constructed from 1839 through the early twentieth century, are featured here. The photos, most of which also show teachers and children, were taken between 1898 and 1998.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Meeting House Park

"This green space became known as Meeting House Park. (And now you know that Church Street is named for John Church and not the North Church at the…"

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Old North Church

"… Through General Knox’s involvement, a Town Meeting House was constructed in 1796 on High Street, and was the first house of worship in the town…"

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Places

"… Brick Inn Farmington's First Grist Mill Franklin County Agricultural Fair Lowell's General Store Measuring Rock Meeting House Park North Church"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Biddeford City Hall: an in-depth tour of this iconic building
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center Voices of Biddeford project

Visual tour and unique insights of Biddeford’s historical landmark

Story

Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.

Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide

Story

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.