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Historical Items

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Item 33782

Freight Train between Guilford & Sangerville, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print

Item 10455

Bangor and Aroostook Railroad freight train in Oakfield Junction yard, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Oakfield Historical Society Date: circa 1930 Location: Oakfield Media: Photographic print

Item 22833

Springvale Depot Freight Shed, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Location: Sanford Media: Print from glass negative

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Student Exhibit: Somerset Railroad

The Somerset Railroad was completed in 1872. It started out as a dream to link the Maine Coast with Canadian businesses to the north. It ran from the North Woods around Moosehead Lake down to Southern Maine and back again for 56 years.

Exhibit

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Exhibit

Summer Folk: The Postcard View

Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."

Site Pages

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad Train Crossing the Aroostook River Bridge, Presque Isle, c. 1990

"… Aroostook Railroad engine 82, a GP-38, hauling a freight train over the Aroostook River Bridge. View additional information about this item on the…"

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Historic Hallowell - Train Wreck Of 1937

"Train Wreck Of 1937 Train Wreck, Hubbard Free Library, Hallowell, 1937Hubbard Free Library On November 10, 1937, a train hopped the tracks…"

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Presque Isle: The Star City - Bangor and Aroostook Railroad

"It is still used as a freight railroad, but doesn’t carry passengers. X Sources: 125th Birthday Committee Presents City of Presque Isle 125th…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.

Story

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

Story

Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey

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