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Historical Items

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Item 79492

Allen J. Maker war wounds, ca. 1870

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1862 Location: Chantilly Media: Lithograph

Item 66912

William Maker GAR application, Gardiner, 1874

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1874-03-26 Location: Gardiner Media: Ink on paper

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Item 20345

Henry Anderson, New Sweden, ca. 1935

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: circa 1935 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

Tax Records

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Item 37219

11-13 Commercial Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Estate of Patrick Keating Use: Shop - Machine

Online Exhibits

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Exhibit

Remembering Mellie Dunham: Snowshoe Maker and Fiddler

Alanson Mellen "Mellie" Dunham and his wife Emma "Gram" Dunham were well-known musicians throughout Maine and the nation in the early decades of the 20th century. Mellie Dunham also received fame as a snowshoe maker.

Exhibit

Chinese in Maine

In 1857, when Daniel Cough left Amoy Island, China, as a stowaway on a sailing ship from Mt. Desert Island he was on his way into history as the first Chinese person to make his home in Maine. He was soon followed by a cigar maker and a tea merchant who settled in Portland and then by many more Chinese men who spread all over Maine working mostly as laundrymen.

Exhibit

Gunpowder for the Civil War

The gunpowder mills at Gambo Falls in Windham and Gorham produced about a quarter of the gunpowder used by Union forces during the Civil War. The complex contained as many as 50 buildings.

Site Pages

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Site Page

Music in Maine - Music Makers

"One banner promoted the Cabinet Makers, Chair Makers, Organ Builders, Piano Forte Makers, Turners, and Plane Makers."

Site Page

Rum, Riot, and Reform - Temperance Membership

"… Association, Pump and Block Makers, Mast and Spar Makers, Rope Makers, Riggers and Sail Makers, 1841 William Capen, Jr. (ca."

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Historic Hallowell - Solid Foundations - Hallowell Granite

"… quarrying granite soon followed as a money-maker. Maternity, Hallowell Granite Works, ca."

My Maine Stories

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Story

Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker

Vignettes from Downeast Maine

Story

Lift the Boats for Everybody
by Andrea Cianchette Maker

The story of her immigrant great grandfather and her nonprofit organization Focus Maine.

Story

Becoming Master snowshoe makers
by Edmond and Brian J. Theriault

Making snowshoes has taken us from novices to world-class craftsmen over 40 years time.

Lesson Plans

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Lesson Plan

Bicentennial Lesson Plan

Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources

Grade Level: 3-5 Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.