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Historical Items

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Item 21818

Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ca. 1880

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1880 Location: Brunswick Media: Stereopticon slide

Item 13054

Massachusetts Hall, Bowdoin College, 1962

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1962 Location: Brunswick Media: Photographic print

Item 13016

Walkway, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ca. 1915

Contributed by: Stanley Museum Date: circa 1915 Location: Brunswick Media: Postcard

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 111318

Proposed State Capitol Building, Portland, 1889

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1889 Location: Portland Client: unknown Architect: John Calvin Stevens and Albert Winslow Cobb Architects

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Bloomfield Academy

In 1842, the new Bloomfield Academy was constructed in Skowhegan. The new brick building replaced the very first Bloomfield Academy, a small wooden building that had been built in 1814 and served as the high school until 1871. After that, it housed elementary school classes until 1980.

Exhibit

The Kotzschmar Memorial Organ

A fire and two men whose lives were entwined for more than 50 years resulted in what is now considered to be "the Jewel of Portland" -- the Austin organ that was given to the city of Portland in 1912.

Exhibit

State of Mind: Becoming Maine

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?

Site Pages

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Bath's Historic Downtown - Old Town Hall and Grant Building

"Right before this new Town Hall was occupied, the “Great Fire of 1837” decimated most of the early records thought to be safely in storage."

Site Page

Music in Maine - Country Music

"As a teen, he played with Yodeling Slim Clark in Massachusetts under the name, The Tumbleweed Kid. Curless started performing in Maine when he…"

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Music in Maine - Drum, Portland, ca. 1854

"… Description Noble and Cooley of East Granville, Massachusetts started manufacturing drums in 1854. They specialized in making maple drums during…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

Story

A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin

As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down