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Historical Items Showing 3 of 5 View All
Item 16905
Title: Graduates, Gouldville Elementary, Presque Isle, 1922
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society
Date: 1922
Location: Presque Isle
Media: Photograph
Item 55115
Title: Schooner 'Bowdoin' navigating Strait of Belle Isle, 1947
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
Date: 1947-09-08
Location: Strait of Belle Isle
Media: negative
Item 19378
Title: Unitarian Church, Presque Isle, 1895
Contributed by: Mark & Emily Turner Memorial Library
Date: 1895
Location: Presque Isle
Media: photogravure print, Ink on paper
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The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner Bowdoin, which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.