Keywords: Brown Bess
Item 12965
Brown Bess British Musket, ca. 1800
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1800 Location: Houlton; Dublin Media: Steel, wood
Exhibit
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.
