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Old Boston for young eyes
Get PDFBoston, Dec. 1, 1880:
My Dear Children: - I think it will interest you to hear about Boston in former days; and I shall tell you not only what I myself remember but also what I have heard from still older persons. Boston was built on a peninsula,- which is. a point of land not quite surrounded by water, but connected with the mainland by a narrow neck. This neck is now so built upon and enlarged by filling in the water on either side that you could scarcely discover it, but on it was the road leading to Roxbury, which is now called Washington Street. You could fee the water on both sides of the road in my youth,- the ocean on one side, and Charles River on the other. The Indians called this peninsula Shawmut.
Mrs. Ephraim Peabodyhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1059/thumbnail.jp
The Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company
Get PDFThe Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company is composed of two corporations organized under the general laws of Maine: The Dunton Silver Mining Company of Hampden, Maine, and the Hampden Silver Mining Company; whose property and capital stock were united under one management by a special act of the Legislature of Maine, approved February 13th, 1880.
Pamphlet contains: 1) Geological Report upon the Dunton Mining Property by W.F. Stewart, Geologist and Mineralogist, Bangor, Maine, November 25th, 1879; 2) W.F. Stewart\u27s letter from March 27th, 1880, to the President and Directors of the Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Company; 3) The State of Maine\u27s act, which was approved February 13, 1880, to consodiated the Hampden Silver Mining Company and the Dunton Silver Mining Company; and 4) The by-laws of the Consolidated Hampden Silver Mining Companyhttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1187/thumbnail.jp
Picturesque Maine
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Maine, the Pine Tree State, covers an area of about thirty-two thousand square miles, nearly half of the soil of New England; and is equal in size to Scotland or Ireland, or to Belgium and Holland combined. It is more than double the size of Greece, and one-seventh as large as Texas. A tenth of this area is occupied by inland lakes, the reservoirs of the great rivers; and nearly two-thirds is still primeval forest, from whose timber scores of cities are yet to be built throughout the Atlantic States. It is in this noble wilderness, large enough to ingulf States and principalities, that the abounding natural attractions abide which draw myriads of visitors each returning season.
The population of Maine is not far from six hundred thousand souls, dwelling by the rivers, in the belt between the ocean and the forest, and subsisting mainly by commerce and manufactures. Swarming from this northern hive, like their Gothic ancestors, scores of thousands of enterprising pioneers have migrated to the far West, to found new realms in the silent heart of the continent; or have spread through the elder Atlantic States, where their energy and determination are everywhere conspicuous.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1106/thumbnail.jp
The New Book of Chronicles in Eight Chapters [Compiled by the Dexter Correspondent James Dwight Maxfield of The Newport Times ]
Get PDFA parody of Maine politics circa 1879, written in the form of a chapter of the Bible, recounting the contentious four candidate1879 Maine gubernatorial race. A huge cast of characters and political parties are present. King Gasslon clearly refers to the Governor of Maine from 1879 to 1880 Alonzo Garcelon. Garcelon oversaw the Greenback controversy, when he investigated alleged voter fraud and determined that the Democrats and not the Republicans had won a majority in the legislature. Senator James Blaine arrived at the Capitol in Augusta with a hundred armed men to protest the results, and Garcelon called out the state militia. Intervervention by a group lead by Joshua Chamberlain helped to restore order. Garcelon\u27s term as Governor ended less than two months later.
The incident was profiled in the books Ballot Battles by Edward B. Foley, and Joshua Chamberlain: The Soldier and the Man by Edward Longacre. It was also detailed in a November 2020 article from Downeast Magazine by Brian Kevin called (online) What Happened When a Maine Governor Tried to Rig an Election and (in print) A Governor Tries to Steal an Election.
James Dwight Maxfield, the author, served on the staff of Daniel F. Davis, the winner of the race, and rightful successor to Garcelon [Source: September 16, 1884, Lewiston Evening Journal ]. The men of Daniel are one of the characters Maxfield references throughout the piece.
A truly interesting semi-first hand, yet satirical, account of a forgotten incident of Maine\u27s political and social history known to many at the time as the Twelve Days that shook Maine.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1368/thumbnail.jp
1880 Bangor City Directory
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1877-78 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
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Nathaniel Hawthorne: An oration delivered before the alumni of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, July 10, 1878
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At the age of fourteen, Hawthorne came to reside with his mother in the house which her brothers had built for her on their new lands in Maine -- a large house, the walls of which are still standing, near the shores of Sebago Lake, in Raymond. He lived there several years, at different times, including some of the vacations of his college course. They were days of delight. With gun or fishing-rod in hand, he wandered at will through the unbroken forest, skirted the shores of the lake in his bouat, watching the lights and shadows on near and distant mountains, or, in winter, when the moonlight was on the ices, skated alone till midnight, building fires to chase the black shadows of the forest from the shores.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1125/thumbnail.jp
Petition for Home Protection: Issued January 8, 1877, by the Bangor Chapter of the Women\u27s Christian Temperance Union
Get PDFA plea by Mary Crosby of Bangor, Secretary of the Women\u27s Christian Temperance Union, to the Women\u27s National Christian Temperance Union petitioning for the Congress of the United States to prohibit the sale of alcohol in the United Stateshttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1300/thumbnail.jp
The new story of the state of Maine : with an appendix
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There is a fine old saying, that you cannot tell by a single wave the tide is ebbing or flowing; but if you look steadily at the land you will soon determine whether it is being submerged or is enlarging its area. So that we may judge of the consequence and the promise of the Pine Tree State tonight I am to ask you to look over its domain, larger than all the rest of New England, its twenty millions of acres, and its three hundred miles of seacoast, comprising beach, marsh, and headland, storm-beaten or kissed by the sunshine of the mist.https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/1060/thumbnail.jp
1875-1876 Bangor and Brewer City Directory
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