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Keywords: 1896

Historical Items

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Item 31106

Kennebec River Flood, Lower Water Street, Hallowell, 1896

Contributed by: Hubbard Free Library Date: 1896 Location: Hallowell Media: Photographic print

Item 22760

Great Freshet, Brunswick, 1896

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896-03-02 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 22761

Great Freshet, Brunswick, 1896

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1896 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111672

Ionic column details, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1896 Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens

Item 109515

House for Mrs. Chard, Lewiston, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston Client: Cora G. Chard Architect: Coombs, Gibbs, and Wilkinson Architects

Item 109530

Boiler House for College Block, Lewiston, 1896

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston Client: unknown Architect: Coombs, Gibbs and Wilkinson Architects

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman

John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.

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

Powering Pejepscot Paper Co.

In 1893, F.C. Whitehouse of Topsham, who owned paper mills in Topsham and Lisbon Falls, began construction of a third mill on the eastern banks of the Androscoggin River five miles north of Topsham. First, he had to build a dam to harness the river's power.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Poem of the 1896 Flood by William Lewis

"… 1896 Flood by William Lewis Hallowell Flood of 1896 It was March 3, 1896 and there was a flood Everyone was 10 feet under without any food Hope…"

Site Page

Historic Hallowell - Cyclone Work Cited

"… Cyclone Work Cited “An Early Morning Cyclone.” The Hallowell Register, 4 Jan. 1896"

Site Page

Lincoln, Maine - South Lincoln schoolhouse, Lincoln, ca. 1930

"In 1896 it was decided to move this building into a more central location and it was moved to a lot across the road from the cemetery."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Julia Winters and Life in Lewiston/Auburn, Maine
by Judy Zaccagnini Flynn, granddaughter

6 year old sent to Maine foster home when her parents were unable to care for her

Story

militakwat
by Jason Brown

A story about Jason Brown's orchestral debut, militakwat

Story

Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics