Maine Memory Network

New Gloucester Historical Society

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Malaga Island: a story best left untold - Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold

"… as of 2022 the Pineland Farms in New Gloucester, Maine. The Malaga community was erased."

Music in Maine - Sacred Music

"… in 1783, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester is, as of 2024, home to the only active Shaker Community in the world."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"New Gloucester was an important destination in early times, since the courts met here from 1791 to 1805."

United Society of Shakers

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"He pitched his camp there. Then he returned to Gloucester for his family and set to work. Soon more settlers arrived, including James Richardson, who…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Peru

"… known as Peru, was made to William Wedgery of New Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1789; Daniel Lunt of Falmouth in 1790; John Fox of Portland in 1792…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Our Shared History - Page 3 of 4

"… wool; some wool was sold to the Shakers in New Gloucester or Mayall Mill in Gray. The landscape of our towns is very different today, wooded now…"

Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Longfellow Era: 1807-1901

"… as a duty." After schooling in Portland and New Gloucester, he attended Harvard but was asked to leave in 1859. He later served in the Civil War."

Guilford, Maine - Pre-Settlement And The First 100 Years

"… until after the harvest; then returned to New Gloucester, leaving his three sons, approximate ages 13, 12, and 11, to look after the property and…"