Keywords: Bicentennial Celebrations
Item 12182
Brunswick Bicentennial Parade, 1939
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1939 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print
Item 12245
U.S. Bicentennial Celebration, Brunswick, 1976
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: 1976-07-04 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, print
Exhibit
MHS in Pictures: exploring our first 200 years
Two years after separating from Massachusetts, Maine leaders—many who were part of the push for statehood—also separated from Massachusetts Historical Society, creating the Maine Historical Society in 1822. The legislation signed on February 5, 1822 positioned MHS as the third-oldest state dedicated historical organization in the nation. The exhibition features MHS's five locations over the institution's two centuries, alongside images of leaders who have steered the organization through pivotal times.
Exhibit
The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
Site Page
Historic Hallowell - History Celebrated, Threatened and Preserved
"… was published in 1962 as part of the city’s bicentennial celebration. But just six years later much of the architectural and cultural heritage of…"
Site Page
New Portland Historical Society
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Lesson Plan
How Do Communities Represent Themselves
Grade Level: K-2
Content Area: Social Studies
Students learn about historical and current flags of Maine and work in small groups to create flags to represent their classroom/school communities.
Lesson Plan
Building Community/Community Buildings
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.
