Keywords: Maine Swedish Colony
Item 20644
Swedish Lutheran Church of Stockholm, ca. 1930
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Stockholm Media: Photographic print
Item 20342
Swedish Baptist Church of New Sweden, ca. 1938
Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1938 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print
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The history of the region now known as Maine did not begin at statehood in 1820. What was Maine before it was a state? How did Maine separate from Massachusetts? How has the Maine we experience today been shaped by thousands of years of history?
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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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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Welcome - Valkommen
"1890New Sweden Historical Society Maine's Swedish Colony was founded in the 1870s in an effort to settle Northern Maine."
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Maine's Swedish Colony, July 23, 1870 - Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony
"Narrative History: Maine Swedish Colony New Sweden fields, ca. 1938New Sweden Historical Society Before the Swedes, there was the forest."
