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Historical Items

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Item 30905

Guilford Center Silver Mine workers, ca. 1940

Contributed by: Guilford Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Guilford Media: Photographic print

Item 16115

Sullivan Waukeag Mine Buildings

Contributed by: Sullivan and Sorrento Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Sullivan; Sorrento Media: Photographic print

Item 31081

Copy of Major Phillips sale of lands to Richard Russell, Biddeford, 1673

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1673-08-13 Location: Biddeford; Saco Media: Ink on paper

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Online Exhibits

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Elise Fellows White: World Traveling Violin Prodigy

Elise Fellows White was a violinist from Skowhegan who traveled all over the world to share her music.

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We Saw Lindbergh!

Following his historic flight across the Atlantic in May 1927, aviator Charles Lindbergh commenced a tour across America, greeted by cheering crowds at every stop. He was a day late for his speaking engagement in Portland, due to foggy conditions. Elise Fellows White wrote in her diary about seeing Lindbergh and his plane.

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Songs of Winnebago

An enduring element of summer camps is the songs campers sing around the campfire, at meals, and on many other occasions. Some regale the camp experience and others spur the camp's athletes on to victory.

Site Pages

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Western Maine Foothills Region - Byron

"… go: spruce gum, several lumber mills, farming, mining of phosphate, and even gold mining, which continues today."

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Highlighting Historical Hampden - Summer Street

"… were numerous gristmills, paper mills, three silver mines, and a foundry. Farmland dominated the rural area to the village’s west."

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village

"Davis and presented him with a massive solid silver watch-chain, as a small token of their appreciation of him as a man and master workman."