Maine Memory Network
Maine's Online Museum

Title: George and Flora Hunter, Hodgdon, c. 1895

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: circa 1895

Location: Hodgdon; Linneus

Media: Photograph

Title: A. Elinor Hunter, Bucksport, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Bucksport Historical Society

Date: 1923

Location: Bucksport

Media: Photograph

Title: Grand Army of the Republic, Frank Hunter Post, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum

Date: circa 1910

Location: Hodgdon Mills

Media: Photographic print

Address: 13 Brewer Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Clarence A Hunter

Use: Dwelling - Two family

Address: 19 Deering Avenue, Portland

Owner in 1924: Annie F Hunter

Use: Dwelling - Two family

Address: 23 Hemlock Street, Portland

Owner in 1924: Annetta R. Hunter

Use: Dwelling - Single family

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

Hunting Season

Maine's ample woods historically provided numerous game animals and birds for hunters seeking food, fur, or hides. The promotion of hunting as tourism and concerns about conservation toward the end of the nineteenth century changed the nature of hunting in Maine.

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.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village

The history of a small western Maine community north of Farmington as told by a team consisting of Strong Historical Society, Strong Elementary School, and Strong Public Library. Exhibit topics include Strong's prominence in the wood products industry (it was once the "Toothpick Capital of the World"), the "Bridge that Changed the Map," schools and educational history, clubs and organizations, "Fly Rod" Crosby, the first Maine guide, and a rich student section related to the Civil War and post-Civil War era in the town.