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Moving Image		The Nation's Playground MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:28:01 With its remarkable coastline, deep-green forest, and rolling landscape, Maine has been a favorite place for visitors for over a century. During the late 1800s, trains and steamboats brought visitors to every corner of the state. Over the last century, tourism has grown into Maine’s largest industry. (Relevance: 937) Find Similar Resources	Recreation/Tourism Tourism -- Maine -- History

Artifact		Indian Antiquities of the Kennebec Valley Maine State Museum, Artifact Original Manuscript: Indian Antiquities of the Kennebec Valley, 1892, by Charles G. Willoughby. 130 pages of text and 22 hand drawn and painted plates of objects. Maroon leather cover. Brown, blue, red and white marble inner cover. Book plates for Charles Clark Willoughby and Alice Stanwood Willoughby. (Relevance: 845) Find Similar Resources	Native Americans Wabanaki

Text		Trip from Damariscotta Mills to Madawaska Maine State Archives, Text Pages from a journal regarding a trip from Damarariscotta Mills to Madawaska, mentioning the terrain, French settlers living along the route and their churches, Indians found living there, and conflict with representatives of the British Gov't in N.B. (Relevance: 837) Find Similar Resources	Churches Conflict-Stability: control of Maine, land disputes, French-English-Indians Surveys Waterways Native Americans Rivers Settlements Land Disputes

Moving Image		A Place Apart MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 00:27:01 Maine is a place apart from the mainstream of American society. Beginning early in Maine’s history, settlers, merchants, visitors, artists, and writers brought images of Maine to the rest of the world that shaped the State's economy, identity, and heritage. The history behind the image of Maine remains a vital part of how we and those from away view Maine today. (Relevance: 824) Find Similar Resources	Maine heritage European settlement History - Colonial Period

Text		Edwin H. Eddy's recollection of his visit to a logging camp, 1880 Maine Historical Society, Text Recollections of Edwin H. Eddy's visit to a logging camp near Moosehead Lake in 1880. (Relevance: 801) Find Similar Resources	Cutler, Thatcher & Company Eddy, Edwin H. Eddy, Edwin H. -- Personal narratives Eddy, Johnathan Lumber trade -- Maine Lumbering -- Maine Lumbermen -- Maine Manuscripts Moosehead Lake -- History

Text		Instrument of Protest Fogler Special Collections, Text Instrument of Protest, sworn to in Liverpool, detailing a storm in the harbor that did great damage to the Bark J. J. Hathorn, owned by the Stuart family of Richmond, Maine. (Relevance: 786) Find Similar Resources	International trade Merchant marine Shipping Shipping/Shipbuilding Storms

Text		John Davison letter from Pattersonville, December Map, 1847 Maine Historical Society, Text John Davison wrote to his wife, Eliza Ann Davison of Augusta. He had sailed from Jamaica and was ill. He was on his way to Philadelphia. (Relevance: 744) Find Similar Resources	Davison, Caleb Henry Davison, Eliza Ann Davison, Eliza Ann (Gannett), b.1811 -- Correspondence Davison, John Davison, John -- Correspondence Letters Manuscripts Seafaring life -- Description and travel Ship captains -- Maine Sons

Moving Image		A Love for the Land MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:25:36 The legacy of Maine's farmers is the open farmland they shaped from the wooded rocky terrain. Their story is an inspiring tale of hardship, innovation, and remarkable endurance. As agriculture heads into the next century, "HOME" looks back at the last century of farming in Maine. (Relevance: 739) Find Similar Resources	Agricultural resources -- Maine Natural resources -- Maine Maine -- Social life and customs Maine -- History Agriculture -- Maine Farming/Agriculture Farm life-- History

Text		Webb family reminiscences about Samuel Webb, 1696-1785 Maine Historical Society, Text Historical reminiscences by Seth Webb about Samuel Webb of Redrift, England, a captain of a slave ship who was poisoned by African natives and whose son, Samuel, made his escape back to England and then ran away to America, was captured by pirates, and eventually moved to the Maine frontier during King George's War. (Relevance: 715) Find Similar Resources	Slave ships Slavery -- Africa Slavery -- England Webb family Webb, Margaret Webb, Samuel Webb, Samuel, 1696-1785 Webb, Seth -- Personal narratives Webb, Susanna Yucatan (Ship) Yucatan (Slaver)

Moving Image		A Part of the Main MPBN: Home Series, Moving Image, 0:26:01 As Europeans began to look seriously towards Maine as a desirable economic region, there were many debates about who owned or controlled the varied and plentiful natural resources, especially timber. In the mid-1800’s, the timber harvest from the communities in the far north woods traveled via the river communities to the prosperous coast where the wealth of natural resources set sail for the world beyond. Today, these distinct regions remain intact, each with a different story to tell about how history has played itself out since that time. (Relevance: 673) Find Similar Resources	Natural resources Settlements Lumbering Shipping/Shipbuilding

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