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Maine Memory Network - http://mainememory.net/
A project of the Maine Historical Society; provides access to documents, maps, and photographs chronicling the state's history. Online purchase of images. |
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Maine Acadian Culture - National Park Service - http://www.nps.gov/maac/
Information about the French ancestors settled during the 1600s in what is now the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Maine. |
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American Folklife Center: Services to Maine - http://rs7.loc.gov/folklife/states/maine.html
Information about collections, which includes oral histories from Aroostook County, Acadian traditions, maritime and lumbering histories. |
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The Center for Maine History - http://www.mainehistory.org/
Experience history firsthand. The Center is comprised of the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House. |
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Windows on Maine - http://windowsonmaine.library.umaine.edu
Offers free streaming and downloadable video, multimedia, and supporting materials about Maine's history, science, and ecology for students, teachers, and educators. |
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Franco American Women - http://members.aol.com/FAWI2000/About.html
Includes literature reviews, links, historical documentation and just plain fun. Site invites submissions of Franco American Heritage and current works. |
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Covered Bridges of Maine - http://www.maine.gov/mdot-stage/covered-bridges/wooden.php
A history of the state's covered bridges includes a tour with clickable map, photographs, and information on the nine surviving bridges. |
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The American Local History Network: Maine - http://www.datasync.com/~bouchard/melocalhist/
Provides links to state, county, town, cities, famous people, religion, and historical events from the years 1500-2000. |
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Film of Leif Eriksson's Vinland - http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/norse.html
Northern Europeans, native Americans, and Asians enjoyed contact, through circumpolar sea travel, including what is now coastal Maine, for thousands of years before Columbus' celebrated voyage. Film synopsis. |
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Prehistoric Era - Red Paint People - http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/prehistoric/redpaint.html
Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine. |
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Acadia National Park -- History - http://americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ac/history/index.html
Several groups of original peoples are mentioned in this brief history of Mount Desert Island. |
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Maine's Red Paint People - http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf073/sf073a01.htm
British scientific page about ancient peoples who likely traveled to the north American continent. Explores Maine archaeologists recent discovery of villages and burial places of Red Paint People. |
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Home: The Story of Maine - http://www.mpbn.net/homestom/
History of the state from prehistory through the 20th century, from Maine PBS. |
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The Red Paint People - http://www.usm.maine.edu/gany/webaa/
Provides theories of origin, evidence from Red Paint sites, photographs of artifact, and a time line. |
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Town and County Histories of Maine - http://history.rays-place.com/me/index.htm
Local information reprinted from A Gazetteer of the State of Maine By George J. Varney. Also includes links to former Governors, biographies, and historical sketches. |