Maine Memory Network

Western Maine Cultural Alliance

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - History Detectives

"History Detectives Native American artifact presentation Special guest Barbara Francis teaches the History Detectives club about uses of Native…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wabanaki Today

"… by Dee Lustusky) X Wabanaki dancers at the Native American Festival, 2008. (Photo by Anna Travers) X Chris Sockalexis performs with Rez…"

Architecture & Landscape database - John Calvin Stevens

"… on the use of New England vernacular forms and native materials such as wood shingles and local stone."

Davistown Museum

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Early Performance

"By the 1800s, white settlement on the island had forced most of the Native tribes including the Wabanaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot, into poverty."

Hudson Museum

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative

"Native Americans referred to both the river and the area as Segochet, “a pleasant place,” but Captain George Waymouth, an early English navigator…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… was a source of food and materials for many Native Americans who used the island as a seasonal, and perhaps permanent, home."

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Welcome to Swan's Island!

"From Native American shell middens to the rusted remains of quarrying equipment, Swan's Island holds a living history of the industries that have…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Discover the Story of Blue Hill - Page 1 of 4

"Research at a burial ground on Mill Island where Roundy and Wood first landed indicate that the native American presence here dated back to almost…"

Early Maine Photography - Famous People - Page 3 of 3

"A native of Byfield, Massachusetts, Cleaveland graduated from Harvard in 1799 and taught mathematics there until he joined the Bowdoin College…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"… seasonally in the area of Bath, no permanent Native American villages occupied the site. And, no settlements resulted from early European…"

Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century

"Perhaps F.B. Foss, a native of Surry, summarized the town's economic downturn best in two verses of a poem he wrote for the 1903 Centennial: Old…"

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"It is unclear when the Native Americans first came to the area they referred to as the “great intervale”."

Presque Isle: The Star City - National Community Christmas Tree - 1959

"The program included a life-size nativity scene, and a stage for nightly performances. On the podium with the President for the lighting were: Mrs."

Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview

"There, he encountered French traders and Native Americans and promptly chased them off. His company then sailed to the larger island of Islesboro…"

Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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