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Historical Items

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Item 104126

Capping ceremony, Mercy Hospital School of Nursing, ca. 1975

Contributed by: Northern Light Mercy Hospital Date: circa 1975 Location: Portland Media: Photographic print

Item 17316

Railroad Hazardous Materials Training Exercise, 1960

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: 1960 Media: Photographic print

Item 14368

Testing fire net, Bangor, ca. 1973

Contributed by: Hose 5 Fire Museum Date: circa 1973 Location: Bangor Media: Photographic print

Online Exhibits

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We Used to be "Normal": A History of F.S.N.S.

Farmington's Normal School -- a teacher-training facility -- opened in 1863 and, over the decades, offered academic programs that included such unique features as domestic and child-care training, and extra-curricular activities from athletics to music and theater.

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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women

Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.

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Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Site Pages

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Transportation Through the Years - Page 1 of 4

"… moved.(5) It was later burned down as a training exercise for firefighters. The Oak Hill station was built near the bottom of Oak Hill where 44-46…"

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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Acadian Archives

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My Maine Stories

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My service in Afghanistan with the Marines and my life today
by Nicholas Krier

My service in Afghanistan with the Marines

Story

Learning to fly and instructing cadets at West Point during WWII
by Vera Cleaves

West Point during World War II

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Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR