Keywords: Slate splitting
Item 78881
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1951-09-14 Location: Barnard Media: Photographic print
Item 78797
Slate Mill operation, Monson, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections
Explore topics around climate change by reuniting collections from one of the nation's earliest natural history museums, the Portland Society of Natural History. The exhibition focuses on how museums collect, and the role of humans in creating changes in society, climate, and biodiversity.
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Historical Overview
"The bedrock consists mostly of slate, quartzite, limestone and greenstone – materials that at a later date provided income for those who came to…"
Story
Apple Time - a visit to the ancestral farm
by Randy Randall
Memories from childhood of visiting the family homestead in Limington during apple picking time.
