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Historical Items

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Item 7846

Report of the Selectmen of the Town of Dover, 1866-1867

Contributed by: Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society Date: 1867 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Media: Paper

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Item 20138

Advertisement for sale of surplus stock, Dover, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1880 Location: Dover Media: Ink on paper

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Item 71160

Bird's-eye view of Dover-Foxcroft, 1878

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: 1878 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Media: Ink on paper, lithograph

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109586

Plans of Dover Hotel, Dover-Foxcroft, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Client: Isaac Blethen Architect: George M. Coombs

Item 109176

Dover-Foxcroft School, Dover-Foxcroft, 1948-1949

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1948–1949 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Client: Town of Dover-Foxcroft Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Item 109147

Dover-Foxcroft Elementary School, Dover-Foxcroft, 1949-1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1949–1950 Location: Dover-Foxcroft Client: Town of Dover-Foxcroft Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Online Exhibits

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Patriotism Shared

Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.

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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?

Site Pages

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Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society

View collections, facts, and contact information for this Contributing Partner.

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Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Henry Knox: Brick Works

"… the area of Broad Street and India Street, replacing decaying wharves; and the Dover Street Bridge between Boston and South Boston opened in 1805."

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Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Site Resources

"compiled by Richard R Shaw. Alan Sutton; Dover, N.H.: Distributed by Berwick Pub.,1994. Print. Cook, Walter L."

My Maine Stories

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Aurore Morin & Huguette Paquette: immigrating to Biddeford
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center

The experience of a young mother and her teenage sister making the transition from Quebec to Maine.

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Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick

A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman