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Historical Items

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Item 108671

Ghost town, Davidson, ca. 1908

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1908 Location: Davidson; Davidson Media: Photographic print

Item 105916

Sawmill and clothespin factory, Davidson, ca. 1908

Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: circa 1908 Location: Davidson; Davidson Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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Northern Threads: Penobscot mocassins

A themed exhibit vignette within "Northern Threads, Part I," about telling stories through Indigenous clothing, featuring an essay by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune (Penobscot.)

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"… the flies that originated in Maine like the Grey Ghost, the Parmachenee Bell, and the Big Brother. Fishermen and women would use bamboo for the…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Economic History of Main Street, Northeast Harbor - Page 3 of 3

"… store? Or will it descend to resemble the ghost villages of Sound and Center – once thriving island villages that have no commercial businesses at…"

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Dixfield's Tuscan Opera House

"In 2013 the building still stands as a ghost to its former glory, unused, and falling into disrepair."

My Maine Stories

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Story

An enjoyable conference, Portland 2021
by John C. Decker, Danville, Pennsylvania

Some snippets from a 4-day conference by transportation historians in Portland, September 7-11, 2021

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down