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Historical Items

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Item 79369

Lewiston Historical Commission, 1969

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1969 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 7006

Frye School, Lewiston, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1900 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 7005

Frye School, Lewiston, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Lewiston Public Library Date: circa 1870 Location: Lewiston Media: Phototransparency

Online Exhibits

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Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine

The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.

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Surgeon General Alonzo Garcelon

Alonzo Garcelon of Lewiston was a physician, politician, businessman, and civic leader when he became Maine's surgeon general during the Civil War, responsible for ensuring regiments had surgeons, for setting up a regimental hospital in Portland, and generally concerned with the well-being of Maine soldiers.

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Les Raquetteurs

In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.

Site Pages

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Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahock House and The Sagadahoc Block

"He later became mayor of Bath. On an early Sunday morning of January 27, 1894, at the Sagadahock House, a fire arose."

My Maine Stories

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Anti-immigrant violence
by Matthew Jude Barker

Prejudice in Maine against immigrants dates back to at least the mid-1700s