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Historical Items

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Item 29244

Thomas Long, Buckfield, 1848

Contributed by: Sterling Hinkley through Turner Museum and Historical Society Date: 1848-04-15 Location: Buckfield Media: Photographic print

Item 16284

John D. Long and Family, Buckfield, 1899

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1899 Location: Buckfield Media: Photographic print

Item 16285

John Davis Long homestead, Buckfield, 1899

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1899 Location: Buckfield Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 84295

Long property, Crescent Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: William G Long Use: Summer Dwelling

Item 86773

Long Island Improvement Association property, 1 Wharf Street, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Long Island Improvement Association Use: Wharf

Item 88089

Long Island Ladies Improvement Association property, S. Side Island Avenue, Long Island, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Long Island Ladies Improvement Association Use: Tea Room

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111983

Buckfield Library, Buckfield, 1900-1906

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1900–1906 Location: Buckfield Client: John D. Long Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 116466

Gorham Academy alterations, Gorham, 1909

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1909 Location: Gorham Client: Gorham Academy Architect: John Calvin Stevens and John Howard Stevens Architects

Item 111327

Bay of Naples Inn, Naples, 1905

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1905 Location: Naples Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Online Exhibits

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Biddeford, Saco and the Textile Industry

The largest textile factory in the country reached seven stories up on the banks of the Saco River in 1825, ushering in more than a century of making cloth in Biddeford and Saco. Along with the industry came larger populations and commercial, retail, social, and cultural growth.

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Fair Season: Crops, Livestock, and Entertainment

Agricultural fairs, intended to promote new techniques and better farming methods, have been held since the early 19th century. Before long, entertainments were added to the educational focus of the early fairs.

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Valentines

Valentines Day cards have long been a way to express feelings of romance or love for family or friends. These early Valentines Day cards suggest the ways in which the expression of those sentiments has changed over time.

Site Pages

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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 2 of 3

"Long Island is 4 and 1/2 miles long and 2 miles wide. In 1768 the island had a sawmill, and settlement began by 1779."

Site Page

Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 1 of 3

"Long Island in 1881Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. At one time Long Island like many other islands was filled with people, and like many other…"

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Blue Hill, Maine - Long Island: The Forgotten Community - Page 3 of 3

"Long Island: The Forgotten Community Brown & McAllister Granite Quarry, Blue Hill Bay, ca. 1890Jonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc."

My Maine Stories

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Timberland Legacy, My Family's History in Maine
by Lisa Huber

A long connection to the forestry industry and conservation movement in Maine

Story

The centuries-long history of Passamaquoddy Veterans
by Donald Soctomah, Passamaquoddy Historic Preservation Office

Passamaquoddy Veterans Protecting the Homeland

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Norcross Deer Hunting
by Albert Fowler

How hunting has impacted my life

Lesson Plans

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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.

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Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Becoming Maine: The Votes for Statehood

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: Social Studies
Maine became a state in 1820 after separating from Massachusetts, but the call for statehood had begun long before the final vote. Why did it take so long? Was 1820 the right time? In this lesson, students will begin to place where Maine’s statehood fits into the broader narrative of 18th and 19th century American political history. They will have the opportunity to cast their own Missouri Compromise vote after learning about Maine’s long road to statehood.

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Longfellow Studies: The Acadian Diaspora - Reading "Evangeline" as a Feminist and Metaphoric Text

Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12 Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies
Evangeline, Longfellow's heroine, has long been read as a search for Evangeline's long-lost love, Gabrielle--separated by the British in 1755 at the time of the Grand Derangement, the Acadian Diaspora. The couple comes to find each other late in life and the story ends. Or does it? Why does Longfellow choose to tell the story of this cultural group with a woman as the protagonist who is a member of a minority culture the Acadians? Does this say something about Longfellow's ability for understanding the misfortunes of others? Who is Evangeline searching for? Is it Gabriel, or her long-lost land of Acadia? Does the couple represent that which is lost to them, the land of their birth and rebirth? These are some of the thoughts and ideas which permeate Longfellow's text, Evangeline, beyond the tale of two lovers lost to one another. As the documentary, Evangeline's Quest (see below) states: "The Acadians, the only people to celebrate their defeat." They, as a cultural group, are found in the poem and their story is told.