Keywords: Alden Grant
Item 9699
Lanes Store Postcard, ca. 1930
Contributed by: Leeds Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Leeds Media: Postcard
Item 9697
Contributed by: Leeds Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Leeds Media: Photographic print
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Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine
As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.
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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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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Thomaston Narrative
"Over the years, John Alden and others from the Plymouth Colony visited this trading post, perhaps explaining the later arrival of southern New…"
