Keywords: Indian geographic place names
Item 6242
Pere Pole deposition, Hallowell, 1793
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1793-07-19 Location: Hallowell Media: Ink on paper
Item 6883
St. John and Penobscot Rivers map, 1798
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1798-05-08 Location: Pleasant Point Media: Ink on paper
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.
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Colonial Cartography: The Plymouth Company Maps
The Plymouth Company (1749-1816) managed one of the very early land grants in Maine along the Kennebec River. The maps from the Plymouth Company's collection of records constitute some of the earliest cartographic works of colonial America.
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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Roads: From Footpaths to Super Highway
"… Chidsey, “The Old Boston Post Roads,” National Geographic (May 1962). 4. See note 2 above. 5. August F."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History
"… the state, and when we consider the extent of its geographical area, the fertility of it soil, its varied mechanical industries, its mercantile and…"
