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Keywords: New Hampshire

Historical Items

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Item 22203

Christy McHugh, Carroll, New Hampshire, 1951

Contributed by: Tom Bennett through Ski Museum of Maine Date: 1951 Location: Carroll Media: Photographic print

Item 17511

Dearborn Inn, Kearsarge, New Hampshire

Contributed by: An individual through Fryeburg Historical Society Date: circa 1947 Location: Kearsarge Media: Photographic print

Item 100291

Martha J. Moulton letter about mill work, New Hampshire, 1852

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1852-05-23 Media: Ink on paper

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Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111314

Mount Pleasant House, NH, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1894 Location: Carroll Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 110079

Centre Conway Library, Conway, NH, ca. 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1923 Location: Conway Client: Centre Conway Library Architect: John P. Thomas

Item 110271

City Hall granite gable parapets, Portland, 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1910 Location: Portland Client: City of Portland Architect: Carrère & Hastings

Online Exhibits

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Patriotism Shared

Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.

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Hiking, Art and Science: Portland's White Mountain Club

In 1873, a group of men, mostly from Portland, formed the second known hiking club in the U.S., the White Mountain Club of Portland, to carry out their scientific interests, their love of hiking and camaraderie, and their artistic interests in painting and drawing the features of several of the White Mountains.

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Hannibal Hamlin of Paris Hill

2009 marked the bicentennials of the births of Abraham Lincoln and his first vice president, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine. To observe the anniversary, Paris Hill, where Hamlin was born and raised, honored the native statesman and recalled both his early life in the community and the mark he made on Maine and the nation.

Site Pages

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New Hampshire Historical Society

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New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - West New Portland Village

"It was later sold to a New Hampshire company and the mill was known as Dirigo Dowel. The following is a list of the people and businesses that were…"

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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789

"… 1677 Since Massachusetts was adjacent to New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island, Maine would not have to port and register until New…"

My Maine Stories

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Minik Wallace 1891-1918
by Genevieve LeMoine, The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum

The life of Minik, an Inuit person from Greenland who grew up in New York City.

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Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.

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My career as a wildlife biologist
by Ron Joseph

Rural Maine provided the foundation of a rewarding career as a wildlife biologist.