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Historical Items

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Item 6066

Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1793-07-19 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper

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Item 6242

Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1793-07-19 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper

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Item 25020

Dr. Rockwell's Mustard Plaster, February 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter

Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.

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State of Mind: Becoming Maine

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?

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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine

BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.

Site Pages

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Additions and New Wing - 1824 to 1843

"Their disposition and employment continued to be a “troublesome affair” for several years. For a time, the windows in the women’s section were…"

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - The Lending Libraries of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… 1855, and is a call for a meeting to “see what disposition shall be made of the books and to manage the concerns of said Library.” It is unknown…"

My Maine Stories

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Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years
by Jamison McAlister

Civil War Soldier comes home after 158 years