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Historical Items

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Item 105853

Bureau of Parks and Lands social distancing poster, Freeport, 2020

Courtesy of an individual partner Date: 2020-04-07 Location: Freeport Media: Digital image

Item 26036

Fort Knox plans, ca. 1842

Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1842 Location: Prospect Media: Copy of negative

Item 9357

Percival Baxter and Katahdin, ca. 1962

Contributed by: Baxter State Park Date: circa 1962 Media: Photo transparency

Online Exhibits

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Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

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400 years of New Mainers

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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World War I and the Maine Experience

With a long history of patriotism and service, Maine experienced the war in a truly distinct way. Its individual experiences tell the story of not only what it means to be an American, but what it means to be from Maine during the war to end all wars.

Site Pages

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Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Working in Maine

"He also helped to manage the state’s 175,000 acres of public land. Del was a supervisor of tree forestry for thirty-seven years."

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Lubec, Maine - The Lighthouse at West Quoddy Head

"Stairway Up the Tower X In the old days of the Lighthouse Service, and even during Coast Guard aegis from 1939, keepers hosted the occasional…"