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Historical Items

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Item 101612

Steam sawmill, North Berwick, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Old Berwick Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: North Berwick Media: Photographic print

Item 71151

Great Falls, New Hampshire, and Berwick, 1877

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: 1877 Location: Berwick Media: Ink on paper

Item 14228

Last day of street railway operation, 1923

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1923-03-17 Location: Berwick Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Graduation Season

Graduations -- and schools -- in the 19th through the first decade of the 20th century often were small affairs and sometimes featured student presentations that demonstrated what they had learned. They were not necessarily held in May or June, what later became the standard "end of the school year."

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This Rebellion: Maine and the Civil War

For Mainers like many other people in both the North and the South, the Civil War, which lasted from 1861-1865, had a profound effect on their lives. Letters, artifacts, relics, and other items saved by participants at home and on the battlefield help illuminate the nature of the Civil War experience for Mainers.

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400 years of New Mainers

Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.

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Old Berwick Historical Society

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Surry by the Bay - Early Settlement

"… New Hampshire, Newbury, Massachusetts, and Berwick, Maine, and they scoped out the area on fishing and trading expeditions, as was true for Matthew…"