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Historical Items

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Item 15015

1914 Stanley Steamer Mountain Wagon

Contributed by: Seal Cove Auto Museum Date: 1914 Location: Seal Cove Media: Metal and Rubber

Item 78959

George B. Dorr, Mount Desert Island, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Mount Desert Island Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Mount Desert Island Media: Photographic print

Item 16411

Androscoggin River and Mount Madison, 1895

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: 1895 Location: Shelburne Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Among the Lungers: Treating TB

Tuberculosis -- or consumption as it often was called -- claimed so many lives and so threatened the health of communities that private organizations and, by 1915, the state, got involved in TB treatment. The state's first tuberculosis sanatorium was built on Greenwood Mountain in Hebron and introduced a new philosophy of treatment.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

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The Washburns of Livermore

Members of the Washburn family of Livermore participated in the Civil War in a variety of ways -- from Caroline at the homefront, to Samuel at sea, Elihu, as a Congressman from Illinois, and Israel governor of Maine. The family had considerable influence politically on several fronts.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"In 1813 it was voted to extend this road over the mountain, past the west side of Worthley Pond, and continue southeast to the Sumner town line…"

Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 4 of 5

"… the town with valuable shops, meeting spaces, dry goods stores and a barber shop. The Tuscan Opera House was built in 1891."

Site Page

Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield - Page 3 of 5

"… Dixfield became known by its quantity of apples dried annually, led by Cyrus and Warren Severy and the inventions of Nathaniel Thomas."

My Maine Stories

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR