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Keywords: Discovery
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Item 6317
Title: Discovery of a new lake
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1880
Location: Mattamiscontis Twp
Media: Ink on paper
Item 7489
Title: Nova Anglia, Novum Belgium et Virginia
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1642
Media: Map, ink on paper
Item 7490
Title: Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova, ca. 1635
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1635
Media: Map, ink on paper
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George Popham and a group of fellow Englishmen arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River, hoping to trade with Native Americans, find gold and other valuable minerals, and discover a Northwest passage. In 18 months, the fledgling colony was gone.
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Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center
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