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Topic: History of Maine

	Maine State History - SHG Resources
		Of Maine's two earliest Indian nations, the Micmacs of eastern Maine and New Brunswick were largely a warlike people, while the more numerous Abnakis (or Wabanakis) were a peaceful nation, given to farming and fishing as a way of life.
		The question of Maine's ownership was a matter of continuing dispute between England and France throughout the first half of the 18th century.
		Thus, Maine's commitment to the Union cause during the war was considerable, both philosophically and materially.
	www.shgresources.com /me/history (2728 words)

	Maine Real Estate License Professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Maine entered the Union on March 15, 1820, when it was separated from Massachusetts to form the 23rd state.
		The name Maine probably originated as the word used by English explorers to refer to the mainland; it may also be derived from the province and region of Maine in northwestern France.
		Maine has 271 libraries, including the outstanding libraries of the University of Maine, the Maine Historical Society in Portland, and the Maine State Library in the capitol at Augusta.
	www.licenseprofessor.com /Maine_Real_Estate_Exam/Maine_people.asp (2156 words)

	Brief History of Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Once Maine became a separate state there followed a period of tremendous economic growth in which a number of important mining and manufacturing industries emerged.
		Maine, which was admitted to the Union as a free state under the provisions of the Missouri Compromise, had a strong anti-slavery tradition.
		This history is extracted from the Maine Almanac (1980) by Jim Brunelle, reprinted by the Maine Historical Society.
	www.mainehistory.info /history.html (2392 words)

	Early Maine History
		Maine was a part of Massachusetts until 1820, when it separated and became its own state.
		Maine, by State Constitution, becomes the first state to give suffrage and school privileges to all, regardless of race.
		Maine's contribution to the war effort amounts to $116 million and 35,000 men.
	home.gwi.net /~chamber3/mainehis.htm (2324 words)

	Women's History Trail : Augusta Maine
		In 1861, the Maine legislature, meeting in Augusta, voted to authorize finding volunteers (over a three year period) to send to the war and for the state to loan the federal government $1 million.
		Augusta M. Foster, of Augusta, was a “Daughter of the Regiment” for a Maine Civil War Regiment, although there is conflicting evidence about which specific one she served.
		A “Daughter of the Regiment” was not an official title, but rather referred to women who associated themselves with a regiment and provided care and assistance to the soldiers, particularly to the wounded.
	dll.umaine.edu /historytrail/site17.html (837 words)

	A long history in Maine
		It is safe to say that no other president in history has had so many words dished up in the bookstores about him while still in office.
		Members of the family would return there again and again to celebrate triumphs and lick the wounds of defeat but alternately to relax and engage in fierce sports competition that served as a metaphor for their personal, business and political lives.
		While we in Maine have always associated the place with the Bush clan, title to the property remained in the Walker name until fairly recent times.
	morningsentinel.mainetoday.com /view/columns/598507.shtml (855 words)

	WPL: Maine History Resources, as of 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A History of Newspapers in the District of Maine.
		History of Buckfield, Oxford County, Maine, from the Earliest Explorations to the Close of the Year 1900.
		History of the Town of Houlton from 1804 to 1883.
	www.waterborolibrary.org /mehist2.htm (4437 words)

	The Making of the 50 States: Maine
		The first known European to see the Maine coastline was John Cabot, who claimed the land for his ruler, King Henry VII, in 1497.
		The first European to set foot on Maine's coastline was Simon Ferdinando, a Portugese navigator, in 1597.
		Maine was so close to English and French settlements in Canada, the Maine area was a battleground during the
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /usstates/mainehistory1.htm (274 words)

	Maine.gov: Facts & History: History
		Maine was at one time part of Massachusetts.
		Maine Natives - Share your favorite memories of Maine in the "old days", stories passed down in your family, or historical tales you've discovered or researched.
		A history of Maine's educational system from 1820-1970.
	www.maine.gov /portal/facts_history/history.html (136 words)

	Genealogy and History of the State of Maine
		Eastern Maine and the rebellion: being an account of the principal local events in eastern Maine during the war, and brief histories of eastern Maine regiments.
		The makers of Maine: essays and tales of early Maine history, from the first explorations to the fall of Louisberg, including the story of the Norse expeditions, Lewiston, Me.: Haswell Press, 1912, Holmes, Herbert Edgar, 265 pgs.
		The history of the state of Maine: from its first discovery, A.D. 1602, to the separation, A.D., inclusive Hallowell Me., Glazier, Masters and Co., 1832, Williamson, William D., 1431 pgs.
	www.genealogycds.com /sales/Maine.html (705 words)

	Maine Visible Black History
		H.H. Price and Gerald E. Talbot have spent seven years collecting this history through photographs, interviews with fl elders, and scholarly research to produce a book for students, libraries, schools and post-secondary institutions, and the general public.
		Sample entries are The Reverend Amos Freeman, Blacks in 19th Century Maine and Black Seafaring in Maine.
		The Rev. Amos Freeman was the minister of the Abyssinian Meetinghouse in Portland from 1841 to 1851, principal of its school, and a known Underground Railroad agent.
	www.visibleblackhistory.com (427 words)

	University of New England - Libraries Subject Guides - Influenza
		Maine Newsstand provides full-text coverage of Maine newspapers from 1995, including the Bangor Daily News and Portland Press Herald, plus selected coverage of other regional sources.
		America: History and Life is the database of choice for American Studies topics.
		It includes coverage of history, interdisciplinary studies of historical interest, and history-related topics in the humanities from 1982 forward.
	www.une.edu /library/subguide/influenza.asp (356 words)

	Amazon.com: Coastal Maine: A Maritime History: Books: Roger F. Duncan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first documented European visitor to the Maine coast was Giovanni Verrazano in 1524; subsequent explorers--Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Samuel de Champlain and John Smith--were then followed by fishermen and fishing settlements in succeeding centuries.
		By the 17th century, Maine was a hotbed of conflict among Indians, French and English.
		Duncan has produced a detailed, lively history of Maine and the sea that is a required purchase for any library laying claim to a serious collection in American maritime history.
	www.amazon.com /Coastal-Maine-A-Maritime-History/dp/0393030482 (907 words)

	Maine Black History Resources
		The MHS hosted a Roundtable in 1997 on Maine's fl history, and out of it grew a collection of articles and references that serve as the most useful exchange on the subject.
		This fl cemetery in Brunswick is being restored and its history, along with other local fl history, is being brought to the public's attention through the work of Barbara Desmarais and others.
		Abstract: This is an excellent history of a substantial fl community in Portsmouth, particularly in Early American history, based on 30 years of research by Cunningham and the skills of trained historian Sammons.
	www.visibleblackhistory.com /Resources.htm (3323 words)

	USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Earthquake History of Maine
		The famous earthquake of 1755, east of Cape Ann, Massachusetts, was felt from the Annapolis River, Nova Scotia, to the Chesapeake Bay.
		On August 20, 1918, damaged to chimneys in South Paris and Norway, Maine, resulted from another shock; felt reports were received from Bridgton, Cape Elizabeth, and Lewiston.
		The area of maximum intensity in the United States was the southeastern half of Maine, where clocks stopped, articles were shaken from shelves, and many people were alarmed.
	earthquake.usgs.gov /regional/states/maine/history.php (650 words)

	The American Local History Network - Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		History of the Univerisity of Maine at Farmington
		History of Westbrook Campus of the University of Maine
		Maine Marriage History (1892 to 1996 - NOTE: there is a gap from 1967 to 1976 missing(search form))
	www.datasync.com /~bouchard/melocalhist (204 words)

	WPL: Maine History Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Separate pages on the history of Factory Island, history of the Town Hall, a history of downtown Saco, the archaeology of the town and a list of the National Historic Register sites in town, the history of the Old Dyer Library, and a 1/2 mile historic walking tour of Main Street.
		Brief Maine history that covers the historical and political highlights from the Paleoindians to William Cohen's appointment to Sec.
		History of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad (Waldo County)
	www.waterborolibrary.org /mainehis.htm (3273 words)

	Women's History Trail : Augusta Maine
		She and one of the troops, the young Aaron Burr, are said to have fallen in love, but her story after the soldiers moved on is not known.
		The main building is the original 1754 structure (with improvements by the Howards and subsequent restoration).
		The main house has late 18th and early 19th century furniture and artifacts, some of which belonged to the Howard family.
	dll.umaine.edu /historytrail/site4.html (1148 words)

	Logging In Maine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PORTLAND, Maine -- The Maine coast has dozens of methane gas fields on the ocean bottom where mud-trapped gas occasionally bubbles to the surface, according to a team of University of Maine scientists.
		Maine state representative, Randy Hotham, R-Dixfield, has introduced a bill that would require every municipal public library in Maine, as well the Maine State Library, the Legislature's law library and all libraries operated by the University of Maine System and Maine Maritime Academy to make circulation records of juveniles available to parents, upon written request.
		PORTLAND, Maine Maines congressional delegation moved swiftly to quash the notion that nuclear waste could be stored on the site of shuttered bases if the Pentagon succeeds in closing the Portsmouth Naval...
	logginginmaine.macslogging.com (1532 words)

	Maine History
		Imagine Maine Browse galleries of new images or old glass plates from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		Today in History Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
		Internet History Sourcebooks Project Paul Halsall is the editor of several sourcebooks that contain historical texts from the public domain.
	www.sad34.net /~steve_tanguay/maine.html (588 words)

	historic maine maine history
		Guess which Maine town it refers to!" This is a PDF file, and thus requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software for viewing.
		The holiday originated, however, as a way to memorialize the end of World War I, November 11, 1918, and to "perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations." Mainers were involved in World War I as soldiers, nurses, and workers on the homefront aiding the military effort".
		The Maine State Archives has a number of records related to the history of this famous bridge that are presented in this exhibition." - Illustrated - From the Maine Historical Society - http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Features?t=fpandfeat=147
	www.archaeolink.com /historic_maine_maine_history.htm (1058 words)

	Maine Office of Tourism - Maine's Naval History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Royal Navy built its first ship in the American colonies at Kittery in 1690, and the Piscataqua River city's long association with the sea is celebrated at the Kittery Historical Society and Naval Museum.
		Maine's strategic significance can also be seen in the more than 20 forts that dot the coast from Kittery to Machias, and well inland - along the Kennebec (Augusta's Old Fort Western, where Benedict Arnold gathered his troops for the march to Quebec in 1775) and St. John Rivers (Fort Kent).
		The largest of these, Fort Knox, was built to protect the approaches to Bangor and offers great views of the Penobscot River and nearby Verona Island.
	www.visitmaine.com /seasonal/summer_2003/heritage_maritime_naval.php (162 words)

	Maine Maritime Museum - Home Page
		Founded in 1962, Maine Maritime Museum collects, preserves and interprets materials relating to the maritime history of Maine.
		Maine's maritime history is told here daily through gallery exhibits, an historic shipyard, educational programs and narrated boat cruises to points of historic significance and natural beauty.
		This exhibit focuses on Benson's marine works that are evocative of Maine.
	www.bathmaine.com (143 words)

	Maine Nature News - Guide & Handbook List-Maine Natural History
		This is my standard for the exact form of the names of Maine's minor civil divisions (cities, towns, townships, gores, and plantations).
		Useful for the Gulf of Maine, as we are in nearly the same bioregion.
		Neither the University of Maine, nor any agency, officer, or employee of the University warrants the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information published on the www.mainenature.org website, and shall not be held liable for any losses caused by reliance on the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of such information.
	www.mainenature.org /documents/handbook_list.html (2430 words)

	index
		An invitation is extended to the public to recount family history involving Maine mining activities.
		Miners, mineralogists, etc., are invited to provide their stories, biographies, excerpts of letters, newspaper acounts, etc. Photographs and/or genealogical information are welcome.
		The diary was in the possession of Thurston Cole of Rumford Point, Maine at least by the mid-1960s.
	www.geocities.com /mainemininghistory/index (239 words)

	Maine - Teaching American History 2003 Grants Abstracts
		Teachers in grades 5-12 from the Gardiner Area School District and affiliated districts in the Capital Area Education Alliance of rural central Maine will strengthen their ability to teach traditional American history by studying, researching, and writing about notable Americans.
		Administered by the LEA and Maine Humanities Council, the project brings together University of Maine History Department, Maine State Archives, Maine Historical Society, Margaret Chase Smith Library and Archives, Bates College's Muskie Archives, and Bowdoin College Library.
		Over 3 years, 30 teachers participate in scholarly conferences, colloquia, residential summer institutes, independent research projects, and field trips, with travel grants funding study in major archives partnering in the project.
	www.ed.gov /programs/teachinghistory/2003tahabstracts/me.html (172 words)

	Maine Office of Tourism - Maine's Living History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here in Maine, it seems every town and village has a story to tell.
		Not to mention all the explorers, artists and writers who have made their mark on history here.
		Click here to learn more about Maine's rich history.
	www.visitmaine.com /seasonal/summer/heritage_history.php (120 words)

	MAINE RUNNING HISTORY
		We need and encourage runners all over Maine and beyond to scour their local libraries, newspaper archives and to search their personal records for race results.
		Our goal is to list every race held in Maine, and selected out of state results featuring Maine runners.
		Remember history can easily be lost and what might seem unimportant now is VERY important many years down the road.
	www.mainerunninghistory.org (213 words)

	Ski Maine History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since the First Ski Season In Maine, 1870-1871.
		Contact Ski Maine Association for more information on this book.
		The disciples of King Winter came early and stayed late, jamming Main Street and competitive sites with a gay mass of multicolored ski suits, worn by both young and old..."
	www.skimaine.com /history/default.htm (361 words)

	history
		A brief history of the town of Harpswell
		Any urls with libby/fmp in them are scanned from Maine's Claim to Fame and will take longer to open.
		Some are political figures, some are known for work in art and literature, some are sport figures, some are entertainers, and some are entrepreneurs.
	www.link75.org /bhm/four/libby/maine/history.htm (110 words)

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