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Item 26906
Title: Iron Hooks Used to Hang a Musket
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
Date: circa 1690
Location: Bristol
Media: object
Item 26901
Title: Cock or Hammer From A Flintlock Musket, Pemaquid, 1690
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands
Date: circa 1690
Location: Bristol
Media: Iron
Item 52769
Title: Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn, 1848
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1848
Location: Portland
Media: Paint, canvas, cloth, wood
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Exhibit
A Naval Disaster: The Penobscot Expedition
A fleet of privateers and hastily recruited soldiers failed to stop the British from occupying Majabigwaduce on Penobscot Bay in 1779. The disastrous Penobscot Expedition left the area, later known as Castine, to the British and a loyalist colony called New Ireland.
Exhibit
George F. Shepley: Lawyer, Soldier, Administrator
George F. Shepley of Portland had achieved renown as a lawyer and as U.S. Attorney for Maine when, at age 42 he formed the 12th Maine Infantry and went off to war. Shepley became military governor of Louisiana early in 1862 and remained in the military for the duration of the war.