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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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

	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.
	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.

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