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Keywords: Temperance Meetings

Historical Items

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Item 23589

Camp Grounds' Grove at Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1885

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: circa 1885 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Photographic print

Item 70004

Green Campground sign, Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1935

Contributed by: Boston Public Library Date: circa 1935 Location: Old Orchard Beach Media: Linen texture postcard

Item 31724

Alger Hall, Scarborough, ca. 1925

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1925 Location: Scarborough Media: Slide, transparency

Online Exhibits

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Lt. Charles A. Garcelon, 16th Maine

The son of Maine's surgeon general and nephew of a captain in the 16th Maine, Charles A. Garcelon of Lewiston served in Co. I of the 16th Maine. His letters home in the first 17 months of his service express his reflections on war and his place in it.

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Debates Over Suffrage

While numerous Mainers worked for and against woman suffrage in the state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some also worked on the national level, seeking a federal amendment to allow women the right to vote

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John Y. Merrill: Leeds Farmer, Entrepreneur, & More

John Y. Merrill of Leeds (1823-1898) made terse entries in diaries he kept for 11 years. His few words still provide a glimpse into the life of a mid 18th century farmer, who also made shoes, quarried stone, moved barns, made healing salves -- and was active in civic affairs.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - A Call to Temperance

"GALLERIES: A Call to Temperance | Temperance Membership | Neal Dow | Drinking: Elegance and Debauchery"

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Rum, Riot, and Reform - Politics and Enforcement

"X Maine State Temperance Camp-Meeting Sebago Lake, 1876 Collections of Maine Historical Society Coll."

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Building Community/Community Buildings

Grade Level: 6-8 Content Area: Social Studies
Where do people gather? What defines a community? What buildings allow people to congregate to celebrate, learn, debate, vote, and take part in all manner of community activities? Students will evaluate images and primary documents from throughout Maine’s history, and look at some of Maine’s earliest gathering spaces and organizations, and how many communities established themselves around certain types of buildings. Students will make connections between the community buildings of the past and the ways we express identity and create communities today.