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Portsmouth Navy Shipyard 1856

Geo-targeted smartphone video tours under construction

Portland Maine 1851 before the great fire

Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder

Portsmouth Navy Shipyard 1856

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Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery Maine as it looked in 1856
Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery Maine as it looked in 1856

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admin @ May 8, 2010

Geo-targeted smartphone video tours under construction

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geo-tageted cape arundelThe first tour will be about Cape Arundel Point. Research is linked to the map at the blue markers. Included will be interviews, old photos and illustrated stories about the history of St Ann’s by the Sea, Atwater’s Edge cottage, St Anns outdoor chapel, the 1812 Kennebunkport Militia Fort, a scalped settler’s remains discovered in an Ancient Cemetery and the 1891 wreck of the Empress. Please remember that this is a work in progress.

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admin @ March 21, 2010

Portland Maine 1851 before the great fire

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admin @ February 11, 2010

Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder

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The Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder is a wonderful resource for Maine researchers.  Volumes I-VIII are online at Google Books.

 Click on each Volume link to see a full table of contents.  Notes below are for my own research and are by no means complete.  If you want to include references to other subjects for your research, write a comment to this posting. 

Volume I

King Family –  Captain Jeremiah Moulton’s Scouting Expedition 1723 – The Founders of Maine By James P. Baxter – Merrill Family – Maine as it was in 1660 – Royalists and Puritans in Maine – Scarborough records

Volume II

Berwick Soldiers 1740 – Cemetery Inscriptions Berwick – Col Alex Rigby – Sanford Marriages – Small Pox – Garrisons 1711 – Maine prior to 1620

Volume III

Scarborough Records and Historical Sketches - Underhill’s description of Maine 1637 – Indian deed Saco River to Kennebunk River 1664 – Records Portland and North Yarmouth – Embargo Sandford 1808 – Vaughn Memorial -  Indian truce 1693 – Seperation movement 1792 – Cape Elizabeth Records – Historical sketches of kittery – Merrill Family -  John Bray of Kittery – Petition of York and Wells 1705 -

Volume IV

Falmouth a sketch – John Bray of Kittery – Scarborough Records – Kittery a Sketch – Alfred Records – York County Gleanings – Eastern Claims -  Lafayette in Maine – Maxwells of Wells – Cutts Family a sketch

Volume V

Biddeford Records – Tories in 1775 – Eastern Claims – Scarborough Records – Standish Records

Volume VI

Eastern Claims, Biddeford Records, Scarborough Record – Indians at Cuncheco 1676 – Standish Records

Volume VII

Biddeford Records – Eastern Claims – Scarborough Records – Indians at Wells 1702 – Kittery Records – Weare Family – Barrows Family

Volume VIII

Alfred Records – Eastern Claims – Indian Relics in Maine – Indian Troubles – Kittery records – Pepperell Farms – Patriotic Women – Waterborough Soldiers

admin @ January 29, 2010

Kennebunk Village 1856

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1856 York County Atlas wall map

1856 York County Atlas wall map

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admin @ January 20, 2010

Kennebunkport and Lower Village 1856

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1856 York County Atlas wall map

1856 York County Atlas wall map

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admin @ January 20, 2010

1856 Area map of Kennebunkport and Kennebunk

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1856 atlas wall map of York County Maine

1856 atlas wall map of York County Maine

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admin @ January 20, 2010

1872 atlas map of Kennebunkport Village, Lower Village, Cape Po

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1872 York County Maine Atlas

1872 York County Maine Atlas

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admin @ January 20, 2010

Stuart map of Saco and Biddeford 1894

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admin @ January 20, 2010

Stuart Plan of Cape Arundel, Kennebunkport, Maine. Kennebunk Beach and Cape Porpoise. 1894

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admin @ January 20, 2010