A lynching in Maine is an unusual thing. Throughout New England, lynching was extremely rare. Most lynching occurred in states in the...
In 1924, dozens of Ku Klux Klan members paraded through the tiny logging town of Greenville, Maine, to bully some outsiders into...
The Londonderry Scots-Irish prevented New Hampshire from a Massachusetts takeover by multiplying along the border and fighting the town across it. Massachusetts...
Over the course of New England history many thousands of workers were killed on the job. Some, like Vermont quarry workers, died...
In 1907, lumber barons persuaded politicians to pass the Maine peonage law to keep lumberjacks on the job. If they quit work,...
In 1880, Dr. George Miller Beard boarded a train for Moosehead Lake in Maine to see for himself the strange lumberjacks known...