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Historical Items

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Item 17341

Rotary Valve Tenor Horn, Houlton, ca. 1860

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1860 Location: Houlton Media: Brass

Item 31082

Fog Horn, Scarborough, ca. 1945

Contributed by: Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Date: circa 1945 Location: Scarborough Media: Aluminum

Item 10361

James Duffy's powder horn, ca. 1848

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1848 Location: Houlton Media: Cow horn

Tax Records

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Item 52636

196 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Neils C Horn Use: Dwelling - Three Family

Item 57904

9 High Street Court, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Jacob M. Horne Use: Dwelling - Single family

Item 57906

9 High Street Court, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Jacob M. Horne Use: Dwelling - Single family

Architecture & Landscape

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Item 109683

House for Mr. A.D. Horn, Farmington, 1894

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1894 Location: Farmington Client: A. D. Horn Architect: George M. Coombs

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Maine and the Space Age

The small town of Andover landed on the international map in 1962 when the Earth Station that had been built there successfully communicated with Telstar, the first telecommunications satellite.

Exhibit

Art of the People: Folk Art in Maine

For many different reasons people saved and carefully preserved the objects in this exhibit. Eventually, along with the memories they hold, the objects were passed to the Maine Historical Society. Object and memory, serve as a powerful way to explore history and to connect to the lives of people in the past.

Exhibit

The World's Largest Oxen

Named for the two largest things in Maine at the turn of the 20th century, Mt. Katahdin and Granger of Stetson, were known as the Largest Oxen in the World. Unable to do farm work because of their size, they visited fairs and agricultural events around the Northeast.

Site Pages

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John Martin: Expert Observer - Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn

"Alonzo Raynes remembrance of trip around Cape Horn   Alonzo Raynes remembrance This newspaper clipping from an unidentified California newspaper…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"Chief Joseph Orono powder horn, ca. 1780Abbe Museum European colonization of Wabanaki Country began in the early 1600s."

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Historic Hallowell - Communication

"… company produced some of the first electric horns for automobiles. They thought that the invention would work well, so they took it to an…"

My Maine Stories

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Story

Choosing a Career in Country and Bluegrass Music
by Ken Brooks

How I became a country and bluegrass musician

Story

From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm

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

Story

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima