Keywords: Dover
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
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
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
Exhibit
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.
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?
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Dover-Foxcroft Historical Society
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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."
Story
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.
Story
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