Keywords: German immigrants
Item 102767
Copy of a plan of lands on the west side of Madomack River, Waldoboro, 1774
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1774 Location: Waldoboro Media: Ink on paper
Item 17943
German pipe, New Sweden, ca. 1870
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: New Sweden Media: Wood with porcelain bowl
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.
Exhibit
WWI Memorial Trees along Portland's Baxter Boulevard
On Memorial Day of 1920, the City of Portland planted 100 Linden trees on Forest Avenue, each dedicated to the memory of one military service member who had died in World War I, or who had served honorably.
Site Page
"… English and French, but you could also hear German, Dutch, Albanian, Greek, Yiddish, Spanish, Chinese, Turkish, Danish, Polish, Russian and…"
Site Page
Early Maine Photography - War - Page 1 of 2
"… Heyer was the first white child born in the German immigrant community of Waldoboro. In his twenties, Heyer joined the Continental Army, serving…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
