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Keywords: 1896
Historical Items Showing 3 of 292 View All
Item 22760
Title: Great Freshet, Brunswick, 1896
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: 1896-03-02
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 31106
Title: Kennebec River Flood, Lower Water Street, Hallowell, 1896
Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library
Date: 1896
Location: Hallowell
Media: Photograph
Item 22761
Title: Great Freshet, Brunswick, 1896
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: 1896
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Exhibits Showing 3 of 74 View All
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John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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St-Jean-Baptiste Day in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century.
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Construction of the Bangor and Aroostook rail lines into northern Aroostook County in the early twentieth century opened the region to tourism and commerce from the south.
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870
A history of Maine's Swedish Colony in Aroostook County. Project partners include Caribou Public Library, Maine Swedish Colony, New Sweden School, New Sweden Historical Society, Nylander Museum, and Stockholm Historical Society. In addition to a substantive history of the Colony generally, exhibit topics cover specific family histories, Olof Nylander, mills and homes in Stockholm, hand tools, railroads, and more.
Site
The history of a long-time mill town as depicted by seventh and eighth grade students at Mattanawcook Junior High School, with help from Lincoln Historical Society and Lincoln Memorial Library. The site includes exhibits on the paper industry, founding fathers, wartime Lincoln, Main Street, influential institutions, and communication and transportation.
Site
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown
The history of Farmington as depicted by representatives from Farmington Historical Society, Farmington Public Library, Center for Community GIS, University of Maine at Farmington, and the Mallett School. Topics covered include education, culture, early settlers, important residents, agriculture, and a special section on maps.