Keywords: servants' housing
Item 16516
Farm House at Montpelier, ca. 1865
Contributed by: The General Henry Knox Museum Date: circa 1865 Location: Thomaston Media: Stereograph
Item 31893
Indenture contract for Samuel Perkins of Arundel, 1805
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1805 Location: Arundel Media: Ink on paper
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
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."
Site Page
NPS, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters Historic Site
View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.
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."
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
