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Historical Items

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Item 105270

Manuscript map of Windham, 1872

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: circa 1740 Location: Windham Media: Ink on Paper

Item 104782

The District of Maine, 1793

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1793 Media: Engraving

Item 135882

Manuscript map of Maine, 1761

Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1761 Media: Ink on paper

Online Exhibits

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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.

Exhibit

Settling along the Androscoggin and Kennebec

The Proprietors of the Township of Brunswick was a land company formed in 1714 and it set out to settle lands along the Androscoggin and Kennebec Rivers in Maine.

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The Shape of Maine

The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background

"… the digitization of approximately 20,000 pages of manuscript material and maps across all three collections."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People

"Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798 Map by cartographer Chief Francis Joseph Neptune (Passamaquoddy), 1798Maine Historical Society…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866

"Bound in volumes alongside these original manuscript records are small histories and genealogies gathered and written by John McKeen, historian and…"