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Historical Items

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Item 102394

Prize sheep, Brighton, Massachusetts, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Stanley Museum on deposit at Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Brighton Media: Lantern slide, hand colored

Item 18414

Stuffed sheep, Lewiston, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1890 Location: Lewiston; Auburn Media: Taxidermied sheep

Item 8177

Caribou and sheep in a field, Ashland, 1915

Contributed by: University of Maine at Presque Isle Library Date: 1915 Location: Ashland Media: photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn

St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.

Exhibit

Raising Fish

Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.

Exhibit

Blueberries to Potatoes: Farming in Maine

Not part of the American "farm belt," Maine nonetheless has been known over the years for a few agricultural items, especially blueberries, sweet corn, potatoes, apples, chickens and dairy products.

Site Pages

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Site Page

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

"… lumbering; farming, which included tending sheep as there were as many as 6000 sheep on Long Island a the time of the Civil War; and fishing as…"

Site Page

Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Agricultural Statistics of the Colony, 1870 to 1880

"… acres horses - 22 oxen - 14 cows/calves - 100/40 sheep - 33 pigs - 125 domestic fowl - uncounted 1880 horses - 164 oxen - 92 milk cows - 283…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Farming

"Each farmer marked his sheep and then let them find their own food. Sheep would often be put on a boat and brought to one of the smaller outer…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

My life as a revolutionary knitter
by Katharine Cobey

Moving to Maine and confronting knitting stereotypes

Story

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics