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Historical Items

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Item 8892

Maine General Hospital patient menu, Portland, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Location: Portland Media: Black and white paper document

Item 8968

Maine General Hospital sewing room, Portland, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 74518

General Electric Type I electric meter, 1913

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1913 Media: Metal, glass

Tax Records

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Item 52384

65 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Jacob Cox Use: Dwelling - Two family

Item 76265

119-123 Spring Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Samuel B. Thombs Use: Garage

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 110211

General Ice Cream Corporation building, Portland, 1967

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1967 Location: Portland Client: General Ice Cream Corp. Architect: Wadsworth, Boston & Tuttle

Item 109383

House for General George Varney, Bangor, 1873

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1873 Location: Bangor Client: General George Varney Architect: Fassett & Stevens Architects

Item 109948

General plan for park system, Portland, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Olmsted Brothers

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

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.

Exhibit

A Handwritten Community Newspaper

The eight issues of South Freeport's handwritten newspaper, distributed in 1859, provided "general interest and amusement" to the coastal community.

Site Pages

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Site Page

The General Henry Knox Museum

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

Site Page

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad

"Lowell's General Store, Commerce, & the Railroad E.H. Lowell, West Farmington, Maine This stencil was used to mark crates and…"

Site Page

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - General Henry Knox Museum

"General Henry Knox Museum Montpelier, the General Henry Knox Museum www.knoxmuseum.org X General Henry Knox Museum PO Box 326 Thomaston, ME…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Elizabeth Mantis Spiliopoulos: passion for life & Greek heritage
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

A spunky 99-year-old shares her crystal-clear recollections of all the changes in her lifetime

Story

From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History

Story

The Oakfield Inn
by Rodney Duplisea

This is a summarized article about the opening of the Oakfield Inn. It appeared in the Bangor Daily

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Primary Sources: Museum Practices for Students

Grade Level: K-2, 3-5 Content Area: Social Studies
Included here are some basics about general museum etiquette and ways to enable your students a greater understanding of museums, artifacts and their significance in illustrating history.

Lesson Plan

Portland History: Signalizing and Non-Verbal Communications at the Portland Observatory

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson is an overview of Captain Lemuel Moody's (builder of the Observatory) signaling system used at the Portland Observatory. Activities range from flag making to mapping and journal writing. The "Signals" slide show allows students to look at Captain Moody's general and private signals notebooks. Students are asked a series of questions about the notebooks and Moody's signaling system allowing for a better understanding of the principles behind the Observatory.

Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Wabanaki Studies: Out of Ash

Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will give middle and high school students a broad overview of the ash tree population in North America, the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) threatening it, and the importance of the ash tree to the Wabanaki people in Maine. Students will look at Wabanaki oral histories as well as the geological/glacial beginnings of the region we now know as Maine for a general understanding of how the ash tree came to be a significant part of Wabanaki cultural history and environmental history in Maine. Students will compare national measures to combat the EAB to the Wabanaki-led Ash Task Force’s approaches in Maine, will discuss the benefits and challenges of biological control of invasive species, the concept of climigration, the concepts of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and how research scientists arrive at best practices for aiding the environment.