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Historical Items

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Item 79582

Nets drying at the Gut, South Bristol, ca. 1920

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

Item 79581

Mending nets, South Bristol, ca. 1950

Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: South Bristol Media: Photographic print

Item 116251

Common Ground Country Fair t-shirt, 1998

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1998 Location: Unity Media: Cotton, ink

Online Exhibits

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Raising Fish

Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.

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Early Fish Canneries in Brooklin

By the 1900s, numerous fish canneries began operating in Center Harbor, located within the Brooklin community. For over thirty years, these plants were an important factor in the community.

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Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Site Pages

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Lobstering

"… active in supporting conservation measures in the fishing grounds they use. They are one of the few islands that created their own limits in local…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - Islanders at Work

"He would fly over the fishing grounds, locate the schools of herring, and radio the location to the fishermen."

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Lawrence were fishing grounds for the rest of the season. Aaron Lightfoot gives an account of the hardships of fishing in an excerpt from Dr."

My Maine Stories

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From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History

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Wabanaki Sovereignty
by Mali Obomsawin and Lokotah Sanborn

Bomazeen Land Trust, renewing and resuming Wabanaki caretaking and stewardship roles

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Growing up DownEast
by Darrin MC Mclellan

Stories of growing up Downeast