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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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Covered Bridges of Maine http://www.maine.gov/mdot/covered-bridges/
A history of the state's covered bridges includes a tour with clickable map, photographs, and information on the nine surviving bridges.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Prehistoric Era - Red Paint People http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/prehistoric/redpaint.html
Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Moé Pi Toé http://www.fawi.net/ezine/Titlepage.html
Ezine filled with poetry, history, ideas, thoughts, facts, and Acadian recipes from The Franco-American Women's Institute.

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