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Historical Items

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Item 20998

Amity-Cary Grange Hall, Amity, 2006

Contributed by: Southern Aroostook Agricultural Museum Date: 2006 Location: Amity Media: Photographic print

Item 17886

Pvt. Cohaig Assadourin mails a Christmas package, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1944-11-11 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Item 17884

Pvt. Vera Edwards mails a Christmas package, Bangor, 1944

Contributed by: Bangor Public Library Date: 1944-11-15 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland

The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.

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One Hundred Years of Caring -- EMMC

In 1892 five physicians -- William H. Simmons, William C. Mason, Walter H. Hunt, Everett T. Nealey, and William E. Baxter -- realized the need for a hospital in the city of Bangor had become urgent and they set about providing one.

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"Brackley, a local business owner, donated a parcel of land on Upper Main Street, which was more than adequate for a school."

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Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"… but not before dividing some of the land into parcels, or grants. One of these grants became known as the Waldo Patent, which comprised…"

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Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… settlement, including the process of purchasing parcels from the Gutch Estate, establishing homes and businesses, and creating local governments…"