Keywords: High Street Christian Church
Item 8153
Village Christian Church, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Item 8154
Village Christian Church, Skowhegan, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: circa 1900 Location: Skowhegan Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Father John Bapst: Catholicism's Defender and Promoter
Father John Bapst, a Jesuit, knew little of America or Maine when he arrived in Old Town in 1853 from Switzerland. He built churches and defended Roman Catholics against Know-Nothing activists, who tarred and feathered the priest in Ellsworth in 1854.
Exhibit
Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.
Site Page
Bath's Historic Downtown - 94 Front Street
"He was a member of several Christian Churches. The entire Palmer family had a long tradition of running dry goods stores in Bath."
Site Page
Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - North Church
"Keeping ministers was problematic and the church ceased services before 1930. The Church lost its steeple in a 1947 storm."
Story
Portland in the 1940s
by Carol Norton Hall
As a young woman in Portland during WWII, the presence of servicemen was life changing.
