Keywords: Athens
Item 15743
Old Methodist Church Youth Conference, Skowhegan Island, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 122985
Plymouth Company Records, box 14/14, ca. 1774
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1774
Location: Albion; China; Vassalboro
Media: Ink on Paper
This record contains 125 images.
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Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: The Story of the Heywood Tavern
The story of the Heywood Tavern in Skowhegan.
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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 3 of 3
"… as reflected in street scenes in South Paris and Athens. A South Paris tintype of about 1860 shows eleven members of the Bemis family standing…"
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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Maine State documents and Proclamations
"… throughout Maine – especially in Frenchboro, Athens, and Malaga, towns they called a “blot upon the state.” they considered many of the recipients…"
