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Item 18848
Title: Stephen Longfellow, Portland, ca. 1845
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1845
Location: Portland
Media: Charcoal on paper
Item 22568
Title: George Akeley and sons 1923
Contributed by: Presque Isle Historical Society
Date: circa 1923
Location: Presque Isle
Media: Photograph
Item 84
Title: Landing of the Fathers at Plymouth
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1820
Media: Earthenware, jpg
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Father Rasles, the Indians and the English
Father Sebastien Rale, a French Jesuit, ran a mission for Indians at Norridgewock and, many English settlers believed, encouraged Indian resistance to English settlement. He was killed in a raid on the mission in 1724 that resulted in the remaining Indians fleeing for Canada.
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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
Lock of George Washington's Hair
Correspondence between Elizabeth Wadsworth, her father Peleg Wadsworth and Martha Washington's secretary about the gift of a lock of George Washington's hair to Eliza.
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Site
The history of a long-time mill town as depicted by seventh and eighth grade students at Mattanawcook Junior High School, with help from Lincoln Historical Society and Lincoln Memorial Library. The site includes exhibits on the paper industry, founding fathers, wartime Lincoln, Main Street, influential institutions, and communication and transportation.