In 1676, the colonial settlers in Scarborough, Maine, had abandoned the town after fierce fighting with a small army of Indians. That...
In September of 1693, just after the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston girl, Margaret Rule, convinced the town that demons possessed her....
When the Samuel Willey family moved to Crawford Notch in 1825, they unwittingly set in motion a chain of events that turned...
In 1652, Massachusetts Puritans decided to bring the English Civil War to North America by taking over Anglican Maine. The year before,...
The oldest bank in a state isn’t necessarily the first one chartered. Banks have had their difficulties over the years and many...
Curses were a fact of life in early colonial America. With limited scientific knowledge, spiritual beliefs reigned supreme. And many believed that...