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Historical Items

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Item 81552

Advent Church and Parsonage, Berwick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Berwick Media: Postcard

Item 22586

Advent Christian Church, Biddeford, 1955

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1955 Location: Biddeford Media: Photographic print

Item 40430

Second Advent Church, Portland, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media Date: circa 1920 Location: Portland Media: Glass Negative

Tax Records

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Item 69214

Assessor's Record, 26-32 Park Avenue, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Second Advent Church Use: Church

Online Exhibits

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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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Northern Threads: The rise and fall of the gigot sleeve

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads Part I," featuring the balloon-like gigot sleeve of the 1830s.

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Le Théâtre

Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."

Site Pages

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Mercy Hospital - Growth & Expansion - Page 2 of 2

"… sterilized 1,000 thermometers per day (before the advent of disposable covers). Mercy also boasted a newly rebuilt and re-equipped orthopedic…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 2 of 4

"After the advent of the automobile in the early 1900s, farm children continued to travel to school by horse for many more years, but as prices for…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 2 of 4

"… these small, local schools diminished with the advent of school buses and a new concept of school consolidation."

My Maine Stories

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A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner

With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.