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Historical Items

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Item 79071

East Dixfield Village Farm, Wilton side, ca. 1890

Contributed by: Dixfield Historical Society Date: circa 1890 Location: Dixfield Media: Photographic print

Item 108655

Fort Augusta and annex at Small Point, Phippsburg, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Penobscot Marine Museum Date: circa 1910 Location: Phippsburg Media: Glass Plate Negative

Item 12238

Pejepscot Village General Store, Topsham, ca. 1900

Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1900 Location: Topsham Media: Photograph, print

Online Exhibits

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Student Exhibit: Logging on Kennebec River

I became interested in the Kennebec River log drive when my grandfather would tell me stories. He remembers watching the logs flow down the river from his home in Fairfield, a small town along the Kennebec River.

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Maine Streets: The Postcard View

Photographers from the Eastern Illustrating and Publishing Co. of Belfast traveled throughout the state, especially in small communities, taking images for postcards. Many of these images, taken in the first three decades of the twentieth century, capture Main Streets on the brink of modernity.

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Farm-yard Frames

Throughout New England, barns attached to houses are fairly common. Why were the buildings connected? What did farmers or families gain by doing this? The phenomenon was captured in the words of a children's song, "Big house, little house, back house, barn," (Thomas C. Hubka <em>Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn, the Connected Farm Buildings of New England,</em> University Press of New England, 1984.)

Site Pages

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Village Schools

"1895 Click for Slide Show The first Strong Village School (Dist.# 5) was located in the building now used by the Aurora Grange."

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

"… injunction on the bonds authorized by Farmington Village Corporation to aid the Androscoggin Railroad Company for the work of extending their road…"

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Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School

"… Historical Society By Kathy Lambert Return to Village Schools Renovation Ground-Breaking, 1996 On April 12, 1996, forty-five biodegradable…"

My Maine Stories

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21st and 19th century technology and freelance photography
by Brendan Bullock

My work is a mash-up of cutting edge technology and 19th century chemistry techniques.

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Pandemic ruminations and the death of Rose Cleveland
by Tilly Laskey

Correlations between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics

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A first encounter with Bath and its wonderful history
by John Decker

Visiting the Maine Maritime Museum as part of a conference