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Historical Items

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Item 16429

Campers at Tim Pond, ca. 1906

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1906 Location: Eustis Media: Photographic print

Item 25454

Bay View Hotel, Saco, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1900 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

Item 16516

Farm House at Montpelier, ca. 1865

Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: circa 1865 Location: Thomaston Media: Stereograph

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 149070

Colket residence site plan, Bar Harbor, 1968-1994

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1968–1994 Location: Bar Harbor Client: Tristram Colket Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Online Exhibits

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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

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"He later served in the Civil War. Servants An unknown number of servants worked and lived in the home during the Longfellow era."

Exhibit

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Wadsworth Era: 1786-1807

"Servants. Although their names are unknown, documentary evidence indicates that the Wadsworth family employed servants to cook, do laundry, clean and…"

Site Pages

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Site Page

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Maine's Pauper Laws and the Cumberland Overseers of the Poor

"An apprentice or servant discharged due to ill treatment, or whose master died, could be bound out again."

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: The Funeral

"… and a large group of mourning relatives, servants, townspeople and strangers. The group left the mansion and proceeded up Knox Street to what is…"

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"Some indentured servants in Massachusetts had written in their contracts that they should not be served lobster more than three times a week…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

The gift of a necklace
by Parivash Rohani

When I was born my grandmother gave me a part of a Baha’i prayer for protection.

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down