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The Cruiser, Freeport, February 1859

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1859 Location: Freeport; South Freeport Media: Paper

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The Cruiser, Freeport, January 1859

Contributed by: Freeport Historical Society Date: 1859 Location: Freeport; South Freeport Media: Paper

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A Handwritten Community Newspaper

The eight issues of South Freeport's handwritten newspaper, distributed in 1859, provided "general interest and amusement" to the coastal community.

Writing Women

Published women authors with ties to Maine are too numerous to count. They have made their marks in all types of literature.

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"… on the different Gazette contributors and their pseudonyms see Hatch, Maine: A History, 181. [6] Banks, Ronald F., Maine Becomes a State: The…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Prominent Women

"… Forest Buds from the Woods of Maine, under the pseudonym Florence Percy. With the profits from that book, she traveled to Europe in 1859–1860."