Keywords: plains
Item 98598
Sugarloaf Mountain, Dixfield, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Location: Dixfield Media: Postcard
Item 62841
Map of "The Plains," Waterville, 1911
Contributed by: Waterville Public Library Date: 1911 Location: Waterville; Waterville; Waterville Media: Ink on paper
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Westbrook Seminary: Educating Women
Westbrook Seminary, built on Stevens Plain in 1831, was founded to educate young men and young women. Seminaries traditionally were a form of advanced secondary education. Westbrook Seminary served an important function in admitting women students, for whom education was less available in the early and mid nineteenth century.
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Memorializing Civil War Veterans: Portland & Westbrook
Three cemeteries -- all of which were in Westbrook during the Civil War -- contain headstones of Civil War soldiers. The inscriptions and embellishments on the stones offer insight into sentiments of the eras when the soldiers died.
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Blue Hill, Maine - Mathematician
Mathematician Plain Scale, Cambridge, 1791 Item 33917 infoJonathan Fisher Memorial, Inc. This plain scale drawing, made by Fisher as a…
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Historic Clothing Collection - 1890-1900 - Page 1 of 3
… Historical Society The 1890s are defined by plain skirts, the rapid rise and fall of the sleeve, and the increased availability of silk.
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Ogunquit Beach Sonnet
by Shannon Schooley
Sonnet written for school when I was 12 years old.
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The Wall
by Michael Uhl
What it means to have beaten the odds
