Keywords: United States -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
Item 104604
New Map of English America, 1677
Contributed by: Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education Date: 1777 Media: Engraving
Item 9359
Maine, from the United States Gazetteer, 1795
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1795 Media: Ink on paper
Exhibit
The boundaries of Maine are the product of international conflict, economic competition, political fights, and contested development. The boundaries are expressions of human values; people determined the shape of Maine.
Exhibit
Home: The Longfellow House & the Emergence of Portland
The Wadsworth-Longfellow house is the oldest building on the Portland peninsula, the first historic site in Maine, a National Historic Landmark, home to three generations of Wadsworth and Longfellow family members -- including the boyhood home of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The history of the house and its inhabitants provide a unique view of the growth and changes of Portland -- as well as of the immediate surroundings of the home.
Site Page
"It was a new version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."
Site Page
Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… to what is currently Maine, New England, and the United States; the frequency which the original items were consulted and handled in person…"
