Maine Memory Network

Memorial Service for Revolutionary War Veteran, Monson, 1954

Contributed by: Monson Historical Society Date: 1954-08-29 Location: Monson Media: Photographic print

G.A.R. National Encampment announcement, Portland, 1929

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1929 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper

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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.

Putting Men to Work, Saving Trees

While many Mainers were averse to accepting federal relief money during the Great Depression of the 1930s, young men eagerly joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin Roosevelt's most popular programs. The Maine Forest Service supervised the work of many of the camps.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 2 of 3

"… Historical Society After the Civil War, Union veterans organized and chartered the first Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in Decatur, Illinois, in…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Groups, Clubs & Organizations - Page 1 of 3

"The organization formed in the years following the Civil War to improve the economic and social position of farmers and their families."

How the first chapter Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine
by Doug Rawlings

Veterans for Peace was founded in Maine and is now an international movement

The Wall
by Michael Uhl

What it means to have beaten the odds