Maine
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4.6KSeven Fun Facts About Taxes
There isn’t much that’s fun about taxes, but we thought we’d try to find something. So we found seven fun -- well,...
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5.3K2Six Historic Buildings With a Clerestory
Ever since visiting the Henry Knox Museum in Thomaston, Maine, we at the New England Historical Society have grown fascinated with clerestory...
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4.5K1Remembering Jonathan Cilley, the Reluctant Maine Duelist
In 1838, politicians in Washington, like Maine representative Jonathan Cilley, didn't have Twitter to settle their political fights. But they did have...
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23.8KRevolutionary War Veterans Reminisce (And Get Their Pictures Taken)
During the Civil War, a Connecticut minister named E. B. Hillard went on a quest to collect the reminiscences of the Revolutionary...
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21.8K7Six Historic One-Room Schoolhouses
Thousands of one-room schoolhouses once educated New England children, some well into the 20th century. Small, utilitarian buildings, they usually lacked plumbing...
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14.5K2How the Wild Turkey Vanished, Then Returned, to New England
For many years the only place you could find something called Wild Turkey in New England was on a liquor store shelf....
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9.9K1The Malta War Pitted Maine Against Massachusetts
The Malta War was the name given to the fighting that broke out in 1809 in Maine's Kennebec County. At that time,...
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11.2KSix Fast Facts About Returning to School 100 Years Ago
Students returning to school 100 years ago may not have had the same requirements for laptops, book bags and new clothes, but...
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6.2K2David Dunbar Tries to Steal Maine from Massachusetts in 1729
David Dunbar had an uncanny ability to agitate people. He was born in Ireland to a family of little means, but in...
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5.2KThe Siege of Scarborough and Maine’s Long War
In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That...
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