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Compulsory Education In Maine : A Brief History 1821 To 1996, Maine Department Of Education
Compulsory Education In Maine : A Brief History 1821 To 1996, Maine Department Of Education
Maine Collection
Compulsory Education in Maine : A Brief History 1821 to 1996
Edited from Department Documents from 1985 by Frank J. Antonucci, Jr., Consultant Truancy, Dropout, and Alternative Education. Maine Department of Education, (July 1996).
Printed under appropriation number 014-05A-7156-01
History Of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent, Daniel E. Mcallister Jr., Shirley A. Merrill
History Of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent, Daniel E. Mcallister Jr., Shirley A. Merrill
Maine Collection
History of North American Trapping: How Fur-Trading Developed Our Continent
by Daniel E. McAllister, Jr. & Shirley A. Merrill
Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, Augusta, Maine, 1990.
Hartford, Maine History, Wilbur A. Libby
Hartford, Maine History, Wilbur A. Libby
Maine Collection
Hartford, Maine History
by Wilbur A. Libby (1985)
Photocopy of author's original typed manuscript placed into a binder and presented to the USM Gorham Library in 1985. A collection of the author's recollections and writings on local history and genealogy, along with copies of maps, photographs, census pages and news items.
Contents: 1607 Settlement failed-conquest - England, France & Indians / The Pilgrims and what happened to them / Passengers on "Anne" "Little James" & "Fortune" / Earliest Settlers, 21 in both Towns / Petitions to Mass. for land grant (15) / Samuel Butterfield's first trip to this area / …
Louis Francis Sockalexis : The Life-Story Of A Penobscot Indian, Trina Wellman
Louis Francis Sockalexis : The Life-Story Of A Penobscot Indian, Trina Wellman
Maine Collection
Louis Francis Sockalexis : The Life-Story of a Penobscot Indian
by Trina Wellman, Bangor, Maine, 1975
Published by the Department of Indian Affairs, State House, Augusta, Maine 04333
150 Years Of Education In Maine, Kermit S. Nickerson
150 Years Of Education In Maine, Kermit S. Nickerson
Maine Collection
150 Years of Education in Maine
Kermit S. Nickerson, Deputy Commissioner of Education
State of Maine, Department of Education, Augusta, 1970.
Sesqui-Centennial History of Maine's Educational System and the Growth and Development of the Maine State Department of Education.
Contents: Foreword / 150 Years / Part I - Education in Maine Prior to 1900 / Part II - Development of the State Department of Education
History Of The Town Of Lincoln, Penobscot County, Maine, 1822 - 1928, Dana Willis Fellows M.D.
History Of The Town Of Lincoln, Penobscot County, Maine, 1822 - 1928, Dana Willis Fellows M.D.
Maine Collection
History of the Town of Lincoln, Penobscot County, Maine, 1822 - 1928
by Dana Willis Fellows, M.D.
Dingley Press, Lewiston, Me. 1929
Contents: An Appreciation / Preface / My Birthplace (O.T. Fellows) / Maine / Location / Surface / Early Settlers / Roads and Bridges / Penobscot River / Educational / Churches / Professions / Trades and Agriculture / Industrial / Hotels / Military / Fires and Accidents / Municipal / Mail and Post Routes / Literary / Societies / Railroads and Stages / Indians / Genealogical Records / Index
The Indians Of The Androscoggin Valley : Tribal History, And Their Relations With The Early English Settlers Of Maine, Charles M. Starbird
The Indians Of The Androscoggin Valley : Tribal History, And Their Relations With The Early English Settlers Of Maine, Charles M. Starbird
Maine Collection
The Indians of the Androscoggin Valley : Tribal History, and their Relations with the Early English Settlers of Maine.
Charles M. Starbird
Forward by Arthur G. Staples ("Mr. Starbird has confined his research and writing to the Androscoggin, or Anasagunticook Tribe").
Chapter Five includes "Pejepscot" (poem), "Some Noted Anasagunticooks", "Various Spellings" etc.
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.1), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.1), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Maine Collection
Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.1) January, February, March 1926.
Edited by John Francis Sprague.
Vol. 14, No.1 (1926) Contents: Longfellow's English Ancestors / Fort Mary / A New Version of Thanatopsis / When King George Assessed the Town of Gorham, Maine, in 1770 / Politics in Bangor in 1860 / Referring to the Name of Mount Battie / List of Tax Payers in the Town of Vienna, Maine, for the Year 1834 / James Henry Carleton / An Old Maine Newspaper / My Mother / Historic Thanksgiving at Southwest Harbor / The Lugubrious Tale and Doleful Death of …
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.2), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.2), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Maine Collection
Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.2) April, May, June 1926.
Edited by John Francis Sprague.
Vol. 14, No. 2 (1926) Contents: History of the Chadwick Survey / Undeveloped Areas for Maine History Research / Fred Pike / Record of Marriages of Aroostook Pioneers / John C. Cross / Historical Notes about Farmington, Maine / "Like a Bell's Distant Tone" / Relating to Farmington and Sandy River Region / Facts to be Remembered about the State of Maine / Passing of the Old Tanneries / School Department / Editorial Comment / Captain Silas Adams / Sayings of the Subscribers
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.3), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Sprague's Journal Of Maine History (Vol.Xiv, No.3), John Francis Sprague (Ed.)
Maine Collection
Sprague's Journal of Maine History (Vol.XIV, No.3) July, August, September 1926.
Cover: "In Memoriam John Francis Sprague, June 16, 1848 -- May 7, 1926".
Vol.14, No. 3 (1926) Contents: Tributes to John Francis Sprague / All Alone / March in a Maine Pasture / Regarding the Jonothan Edwards Family / What Forestry Means to Maine / Repeating Maine History / Side-light on Ancient Local History / Chadwick Survey Paper Corrigenda / First Permanent Settler / Census of Penobscot County / Letters from Journal's Friends / Maine Patriotic Orders / Kind and Appreciative Words / Sayings of Subscribers
The Story Of An Old New England Town: History Of Lee, Maine, Vinal A. Houghton
The Story Of An Old New England Town: History Of Lee, Maine, Vinal A. Houghton
Maine Collection
The Story of an Old New England Town: History of Lee, Maine
Compiled and Edited by Vinal A. Houghton, Belgrade, Maine (Formerly of Lee, Maine).
Nelson Print, Wilton, Maine 1926
Contents: Descriptive / Historical / Reminscences / The Religious History / The Schools / Lee Academy / The Industrial History / The Fraternal Organizations / The Military History / The Civil Roster / The Census of 1860 / Odds and Ends of History / First Things / Lee in Poetry / Early Settlers / Miscellaneous Items / Angling on the Passadumkeag / The Mattakeunk Cabin Colony / Conclusions
A History Of Pemaquid; With Sketches Of Monhegan, Popham And Castine, Arlita Dodge Parker
A History Of Pemaquid; With Sketches Of Monhegan, Popham And Castine, Arlita Dodge Parker
Maine Collection
A History of Pemaquid; with Sketches of Monhegan, Popham and Castine
by Arlita Dodge Parker
MacDonald & Evans, Boston, Mass., 1925.
Contents: Pemaquid and the First Explorers / A Summer Idyll / The Colony at Popham Beach / Capt. John Smith and Monhegan / The Plymouth Company and the Council for New England / The Debt of Massachusetts to the Pioneers of Maine / Christopher Levett and Capemanwagan / Sir Ferdinando Gorges' Province of Maine and Other Grants and Settlements / Bristol Old and New / Many Masters / Pentagoet and the Indian Missions / Castine / King Philip's War …
History Of Winthrop, Maine, With Genealogical Notes, Everett S. Stackpole
History Of Winthrop, Maine, With Genealogical Notes, Everett S. Stackpole
Maine Collection
History of Winthrop, Maine, With Genealogical Notes
by Everett S. Stackpole
"Published by Vote of the Town", Press of Merrill & Webber Company, Auburn, Maine (circa 1925).
Contents: Name and Incorporation / Scott, the Pioneer / Settlers and Estates / Roads / Cemeteries / Churches / Military History / Division Into Two Towns / Fight for a Fishway / Agriculture / Manufactures / Banks / Schools / Mails and Postmasters / Talleyrand in Winthrop / Winthrop as a Summer Resort / Growth of the Town / Town Officers / Genealogical Notes / Unclassified Marriages / Index of Subjects and Places …
The Story Of Prouts Neck, Rupert Sargent Holland
The Story Of Prouts Neck, Rupert Sargent Holland
Maine Collection
The Story of Prouts Neck
by Rupert Sargent Holland
The Prouts Neck Association, Prouts Neck, Maine (1924)
Contents: I. The First Settlement / II. The Second Settlement / III. Prouts Neck / Colonial Chronology / Key to Holland Map
Maps: "General Plan of the 18 Hole Golf Course" and "Sketch Map of Prouts Neck, Maine, J.W. Holland, 1910".
Three Men From Maine : Sir William Pepperrell, Sir William Phips, James Sullivan And A Bit Of Old England In New England, John Francis Sprague, Bertram E. Packard
Three Men From Maine : Sir William Pepperrell, Sir William Phips, James Sullivan And A Bit Of Old England In New England, John Francis Sprague, Bertram E. Packard
Maine Collection
Three Men From Maine : Sir William Pepperrell, Sir William Phips, James Sullivan (by John Francis Sprague); and A Bit of Old England in New England (by Bertram E. Packard)
Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Dover-Foxcroft, Maine (1924).
Contents: Sir William Pepperrell (1696-1759) / Sir William Phips (1651-1695) / James Sullivan (1744-1808) / A Bit of Old England in New England (Gardiner family)
Old Prouts Neck, Augustus F. Moulton
Old Prouts Neck, Augustus F. Moulton
Maine Collection
Old Prouts Neck
by Augustus F. Moulton.
Marks Printing House, Portland, Maine (1924).
Contents: I. Black Point and Prouts Neck / II. The Cammock Patent / III. The Occupation of Henry Jocelyn / IV. The General Situation / V. Scottow and the Indian Wars / VI. Troubles in Peace and Troubles in War / VII. The Second Settlement / VIII. This Becomes Prouts Neck / IX. In the Libby Occupation / X. Locations and Historical Plans
A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D.
A History Of Swan's Island, Maine, Herman Wesley Small M.D.
Maine Collection
A History of Swan's Island, Maine
by H.W. Small, M.D. (1865-1937)
Table of Contents:
1. Introduction - Aborigines - Discovery, 2. Purchase - Settlement and Land Titles, 3. A Sketch of the Life of Col. James Swan, 4. Biographical Sketches of early Settlers, 5. Gott's Island, 6. The Fishing Industry, 7. Synopsis of the Municipal Records, 8. Miscellaneous - Index of First Settlers
The Story Of New Sweden As Told At The Quarter Centennial Celebration Of The Founding Of The Swedish Colony In The Woods Of Maine, June 25, 1895, Stanley J. Estes
The Story Of New Sweden As Told At The Quarter Centennial Celebration Of The Founding Of The Swedish Colony In The Woods Of Maine, June 25, 1895, Stanley J. Estes
Maine Collection
The Story of New Sweden as Told at the Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the Swedish Colony in the Woods of Maine, June 25, 1895
Edited by Stanley J. Estes
Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford
Bar Harbor, F. Marion Crawford
Maine Collection
Bar Harbor
by Francis Marion Crawford. Illustrated by C.S. Reinhart.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1896.
American Summer Resorts
The Kennebec Valley, Seth Harding Whitney
The Kennebec Valley, Seth Harding Whitney
Maine Collection
The Kennebec Valley. This work is devoted to the early history of the valley; also relating many incidents and adventures of the early settlers; including a brief sketch of the Kennebec Indian.
by S.H. Whitney. Sprague, Burleigh & Flynt, printers to the state,1887.
Chapter Titles: The Kennebec Indian / The Kennebec River / Sources of land titles in the Kennebec Valley / Sagadahoc County / Kennebec County / Somerset County / Arnold in the Kennebec Valley / Dresden / Casco Bay
Annals Of Calais, Maine, And St. Stephen, New Brunswick; Including The Village Of Milltown, Me., And The Present Town Of Milltown, N.B., Isaac Case Knowlton
Annals Of Calais, Maine, And St. Stephen, New Brunswick; Including The Village Of Milltown, Me., And The Present Town Of Milltown, N.B., Isaac Case Knowlton
Maine Collection
Annals of Calais, Maine, and St. Stephen, New Brunswick; Including the Village of Milltown, Me., and the Present Town of Milltown, N.B.
by Rev. Issac Case Knowlton
Index Includes Chapter Titles: "Aborigines", "The Beginning", "Primeval Age--1790 to 1800", "The Bar", "Physicians", "Benevolent Societies", "Shipping", "Newspapers", "New Churches", "Smuggling", "Cemeteries", etc. 33 Chapters with Appendix.
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874, T. H. Haskell
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874, T. H. Haskell
Maine Collection
The New Gloucester Centennial, September 7, 1874
by T.H. Haskell
Appendix Lists: " Votes of the Town During the Revolution", "Roll of Capt. Parsons' Company", "Polls and Estates", "Aged People" etc.
History Of Industry, Maine : From The First Settlement In 1791, William Allen
History Of Industry, Maine : From The First Settlement In 1791, William Allen
Maine Collection
History of Industry, Maine : From the First Settlement in 1791
by William Allen
Smith & Emery, Printers, Skowhegan, Maine, 1869
Contents: Boundaries and Extent / Land Titles / Plymouth Patent Opposition / Commissioners / New Vineyard, Anson and New Sharon / The Vineyard Gore Lines / First Settlers / Organization of a Military Company / State and County Taxes / Incorporation of the Town / Mills, Roads, Etc. / Face of the Country, Soil and Productions / Schools / Religious Meetings / Census and Statistics / State Valuation and State Taxes / Taxes / County Commissioners / Senators / …
Journal Of Several Visits To The Indians On The Kennebec River, Joseph Baxter
Journal Of Several Visits To The Indians On The Kennebec River, Joseph Baxter
Maine Collection
Journal of Several Visits to the Indians On the Kennebec River
by the Rev. Joseph Baxter, of Medfield, Mass., 1717 with notes by the Rev. Elias Nason. "Reprinted from the N.E.Hist. and Genealogical Register for January, 1867."
David Clapp & Son, Printers, 334 Washington St., Boston, 1867.