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Historical Items

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Item 99270

Panorama of Buck's Harbor, South Brooksville, ca. 1955

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1955 Location: Brooksville Media: Photo negative

Item 98830

Bayside Lodge, Harborside, Brooksville, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Brooksville Media: Glass Negative

Item 99269

Buck Harbor Gift Shop, South Brooksville, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1940 Location: Brooksville Media: Glass Negative

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 151810

Cowan residence, Brooksville, 2013

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2013 Location: Brooksville Clients: Sophie Sides Cowan; Douglas Cowan Architect: Elliott and Elliott Architecture

Item 151853

Smith Cove residence, Brooksville, 2001-2003

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2001–2003 Location: Brooksville Clients: Lawrence MacElree; Jane MacElree Architect: Patrick Chasse; Landscape Design Associates

Item 150155

Wilson residence, Brooksville, 1947

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1947 Location: Brooksville Client: Wilson Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin

By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.

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Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Blue Hill, Maine - Brooksville to Castine Ferry, 1907

"Brooksville to Castine Ferry, 1907 Contributed by Blue Hill Public Library Description A ferry boat that traveled from Brooksville to…"

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Surry by the Bay - Phebe Fowler: A Woman of Property

"… property: Lemuel (eventually a stonecutter in Brooksville who had 11 children) in 1871, Mina in 1874, and Charles in 1877."

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Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… now Bucksport; #2 now Orland, #3 now Penobscot, Brooksville and Castine, #4 now Brooklin and Sedgwick, #5 now Blue Hill, and # 6 now Surry."

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Maine Monochromatic Oceanscape

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of the creatures that live in the Gulf of Maine, real and imagined. Students will be able to describe the creatures they learn about, first learning simple art skills, and then combining these simple skills to make an Oceanscape picture that is complex.