Keywords: Outpost
Item 108707
Sutler agreement with Shepard Cary, Houlton, 1837
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: 1837-06-24 Location: Houlton Media: Ink on Paper
Item 108923
US officer and a German POW officer, Houlton, ca. 1944
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1944 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Black soldiers served in Maine during World War II, assigned in small numbers throughout the state to guard Grand Trunk rail lines from a possible German attack. The soldiers, who lived in railroad cars near their posts often interacted with local residents.
Exhibit
John Dunn, 19th Century Sportsman
John Warner Grigg Dunn was an accomplished amateur photographer, hunter, fisherman and lover of nature. On his trips to Ragged Lake and environs, he became an early innovator among amateur wildlife photographers. His photography left us with a unique record of the Moosehead Lake region in the late nineteenth century.
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"… property arrived in the Dawnland, forming coastal outposts devoted to fishing, logging, and fur trading."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… inland routes leading from Maine to Canadian outposts became very important. Hallowell was a trade center of long standing because it had a…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
