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Moments both large and small throughout the amazing history of Maine. Banner courtesy of Maine Memory Network.

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History of Maine @mainehistory.xyz · Dec 28
Welcome to History of Maine! This page is dedicated to celebrating and sharing the interesting, mundane, and spectacular moments of the State of Maine's storied history. 🦞 🌲 🐚 🌊 🏔️

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Great Seal of the State of Maine, featuring a sailor with a sextant and a farmer with a scythe. A moose sits beneath a tall pine tree at the center of the seal. The Latin word, "Dirigo," meaning, "I lead," and the North Star serve as guidance during good and bad times alike.
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Incredible to see this beautiful old store in operation again. I've visited it several times over the years. Definitely worth stopping in to peep the architecture & grab some local eggs! Great piece by the @bangordailynews.bsky.social

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May 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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What an incredible gift to the area's historians, preservationists, & families! #Genealogy is so critical to preserving a town or region's historical events. This is a great reminder to consider donating our research to historical societies and libraries in the future.

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Genealogical database of MDI families gifted to Ellsworth library
The Ellsworth Public Library's genealogy collection now includes a digital database compiled and donated by Bar Harbor resident Sheldon Goldthwait, this one containing about 51,000 names of members of...
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March 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Such an interesting history to Route 9, aka the Airline! Totally on-brand for Mainers in 1856 to drive a horse drawn stagecoach along a logging road. Give this article a read if you love Downeast #history!

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bangordailynews.bsky.social Bangor Daily News @bangordailynews.bsky.social · Mar 24
There are plenty of half-truths and made-up stories to explain why Route 9 is called the Airline. It's a shame, because the real reason the road got that nickname is more interesting than any myth.
How Route 9 came to be known as the ‘Airline’
There are plenty of half-truths to contend with when Mainers explain to folks from away why Route 9 between Brewer and Calais is called the Airline.
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March 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Just two months after becoming world-famous, Charles Lindbergh made an unexpected landing on the sands of Old Orchard Beach on July 24, 1927. He planned to land in Portland on the 23rd, but circled the foggy city for 2.5 hrs before retreating to NH. #maine #mainehistory #mainehistorymonday #history
Charles Lindbergh (right) with local airport owner Harry Jones (pointing) at Old Orchard Beach on July 24, 1927.
March 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Great reminder for Mainers! Our attics & closets are full of hidden genealogical & historical treasures. Many have family films on old mediums like VHS tapes, but they deteriorate over time. Digitize your memories & history for future generations if you can. #maine #mainehistory #history #genealogy
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Mar 5
Home movies capture the moments that define our lives—family celebrations, everyday joys. Yet, these films are vanishing due to time, neglect & decay.

Archivist Rick Prelinger @footage.bsky.social explores why no film should be left unscanned. blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/v...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The Thomas Ruggles House in Columbia Falls, #Maine is a gleaming jewel at the center of a quaint Downeast village. The Federal style home was completed in 1820, but when Lizzie Ruggles died in 1920 the building was in need of serious repair. A cousin, Mary, took charge. #mainehistorymonday #history
Ruggles House before restoration, ca. 1920 Ruggles House after restoration, ca. 1950
February 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The Battle of Machias, also called the Battle of the Margaretta, is recognized as the first naval engagement of the Revolutionary War.

British Capt. James Moore arrived in port on June 2, 1775 w/two merchant vessels. His mission was twofold:
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An image of the first naval battle of the American revolution, which took place in Machias, Maine. Displayed are two ships, the British HMS Margaretta and the American sloop Unity. Print taken from the book "Life of Jeremiah O'Brien" by Andrew M. Sherman, publish 1902.
February 4, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Though unknown exactly where in the traditional territories he was born, Sagamore Samoset of the Eastern Abenaki lived many years in the area that we now call #Maine. A very capable sub-Chief, Samoset was an open-minded & personable ambassador.

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A print of Samoset announcing himself with peaceful tidings to the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony.
January 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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I'd never heard of a trime before today! This coin from 1852 is so an interesting & beautifully minted. @digitdan.bsky.social found it here in #Maine. Thanks for teaching me something new.

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digitdan.bsky.social Dig It Dan @digitdan.bsky.social · Jan 22
American coins used to be so much cooler than they are now. This is an 1852 3cent silver coin called a trime. One of the smallest coins ever minted. Smaller and thinner than a dime. Found in the middle of the woods in Maine.
January 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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"I believe firmly that the solution lies in total nonviolence," Dr. King is recorded saying as he sat upon a couch inside Moulton Union in the Spring of 1964. King was entirely engaged with a Bowdoin student despite speaking at length earlier.

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Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine in the Spring of 1964. Photo courtesy Bowdoin College.
January 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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The other day, WABI TV5 published this interesting look at metal detecting in #Maine. It's amazing what rarities you can find beneath your feet. To dig up a colonial coin would be so cool!

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Thomaston man unearths Maine’s colonial history with metal detector
YouTube video by WABI | Maine Local News, Weather, Sports
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January 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Titled "North to Freedom," this statue is the official #Maine memorial to the Underground Railroad located at Chamberlain Freedom Park in Brewer. Former site of the John Holyoke house, it was a quick stop enroute to freedom. The house had a tunnel down to the Penobscot River.

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A statue featuring an enslaved person emerging from a tunnel. Photo courtesy of DrStew82 from Wikipedia.
January 18, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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Rich Horn reprints copies of the first TMNT #1 #comic using the original negatives in this short but spellbinding documentary. Starting as a comic book, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was co-created by Kevin Eastman of #Maine and Peter Laird of Mass.

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pressherald.com Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · Jan 12
You'll see several Press Herald folks in this behind-the-scenes video partially shot in our facility.
Final First Edition (Documentary) | One Man’s Mission to Reprint TMNT’s First Comic
YouTube video by Film Shortage
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January 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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I hope that someone can help save this beautiful historic building! 🏠

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January 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Cornelia Thurza “Fly Rod” Crosby was the first ever licensed #Maine Guide. Also a talented & prolific nature writer, Fly Rod lived from 1854-1946, passing in Lewiston at 92. She was known to catch a trout a minute. Crosby was a great friend to the Penobscot tribe, who... 1/3

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A photograph of Cornelia Thurza "Fly Rod" Crowley, Maine's first ever registered guide. Here she is seen in a dress with a small hat upon her head. On her lap are six fish hooked on a line, and a fly rod lays across her lap. There is a tackle box and a journal on the ground, a nod to her prolific writing career.
January 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Neat piece of Maine-related history! One SKU of these short-lived Pillsbury Toaster Muffins features #maine wild blueberries.

It makes you wonder who the growers, pickers, packers, and suppliers of yesteryear were.

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discontinuedfoods.bsky.social Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · Jun 4
Pillsbury Toaster Muffins (1986-circa 1988): Trying to expand their line of toastable breakfast treats, Pillsbury released these blueberry toaster cakes with a muffiny texture
January 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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This letter, dated July 19, 1793, is a deposition written by an Abenaki man named Perepole, who lived in the Androscoggin valley. In the letter, he shares some of the Native American names for different segments of what we now call the Androscoggin River.

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January 11, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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From Tides Institute & Museum of Art, an amazing photo of a carriage procession in Eastport ~1900. On the right is the impressive three-story Quoddy Hotel. The Quoddy would burn in 1904, making this a rare snapshot of a bustling rural town at the turn of the century.

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A photo of a horse-drawn carriage procession in Eastport, Maine from about 1900. In the background of the photo is the Quoddy Hotel, a luxurious three-story place to stay in the bustling rural coastal town.
January 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Samuel de Champlain sketched this map of Saco Bay in 1605. He mapped the locations of Native structures & fields. Notably, B indicates their fortress and C shows "cabins [that] are among the fields where they cultivate the Earth and sow Indian corn."

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A map created in 1605 by Samuel de Champlain, featuring Saco Bay in Maine.
January 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Happy New Year! On 01/01/1971, Baxter State Park changed policies to be open year-round. This allowed visitors to finally begin outdoor recreating within the 200,00 acres of State-preserved wilderness in winter. BSP contains the final 10 mi of the Appalachian Trail.

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A view of Mount Katahdin from about 1900. Photo courtesy of the Maine Memory Network.
January 2, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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President Teddy Roosevelt visited Old Orchard Beach, #maine on 08/26/1902.

“I owe a personal debt to Maine because of my association with certain staunch friends in Aroostook County; an association that helped and benefitted me throughout my life in more ways than one.”

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A photograph of President Teddy Roosevelt standing upon the deck of his traincar. He is waving, surrounded by hundreds of Mainers and fans from all over.
December 28, 2024 at 4:41 AM
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Welcome to History of Maine! This page is dedicated to celebrating and sharing the interesting, mundane, and spectacular moments of the State of Maine's storied history. 🦞 🌲 🐚 🌊 🏔️

#maine #mainehistory
Great Seal of the State of Maine, featuring a sailor with a sextant and a farmer with a scythe. A moose sits beneath a tall pine tree at the center of the seal. The Latin word, "Dirigo," meaning, "I lead," and the North Star serve as guidance during good and bad times alike.
December 28, 2024 at 4:33 AM