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Bowler versus Chisholm, and the Ill-fated Bethel-Rumford Electric Railway
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Bowler versus Chisholm,and the Ill-fated Bethel-Rumford Electric Railway by Randall H. Bennett In 1882, Canadian-born Hugh J. Chisholm (1847-1912), a lumber enthusiast and successful partner in the Portland based Chisholm Brothers…
Tags: Rumford Citizen (Rumford, Me.) | Rumford Falls and Bethel Street Railway Company | Rumford Falls Times (Rumford, Me.)
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 14]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. By Col. Clark S. Edwards number xiv After the battle of Rappahannock Station, Company I of the 5th Maine Regiment, went into camp on the high bank south of Hazel River…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, annual catalogue, eightieth year, 1915-1916
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Collection: Gould Academy Catalogs
The Railroad Comes to Bethel
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The Railroad Comes to Bethel by Randall H. Bennett Grand Trunk Railway station at Bethel, circa 1880 Editor’s Note: The following is an edited version of remarks made by Society Curator of Collections Randall Bennett on 10 March 2001 at…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 15]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. By Col. Clark S. Edwards number xv Feb. 26, 1864, found the Sixth Corps in line moving towards Robertson River via Culpepper C. H. The second day from our camp near the…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, annual catalogue, seventy-seventh year, 1912-1913
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Collection: Gould Academy Catalogs
Crossing by Ferry on the Androscoggin
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Crossing by Ferry on the Androscoggin by Frank Worcester West Bethel Ferry, Androscoggin River, circa 1910 The ferryboat was retained in its proper position on the river by means of a large steel cable suspended across the river from two large…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 16]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. By Col. Clark S. Edwards number xvi Early on the morning of May 8th, we commenced that flank movement to the left which ended June 23, south of Petersburg near the Welden…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, annual catalogue, seventy-fifth year, 1910-1911
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Collection: Gould Academy Catalogs
Bethel's Elusive Androscoggin Steamboat
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Bethel's Elusive Androscoggin Steamboat by Randall H. Bennett Steamboat landing site on Androscoggin River at Bethel, circa 1910 "I know of no place in the United States where as varied and rich scenery can be witnessed as when on the…
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War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 17]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. By Col. Clark S. Edwards number xvii A portion of Company I was inside of the rebel rifle-pits from half past six to quarter of ten o'clock in the evening, when we received…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, seventy-first year, annual catalogue, 1906-1907
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Addison Emery Verrill: Eminent Zoologist
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Addison Emery Verrill Eminent Zoologist by Stanley Russell Howe Addison E. Verrill (1839-1926) One of the most eminent zoologists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Addison Emery Verrill was born on Patch Mountain, Greenwood, Maine,…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 18]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. [By Col. Clark S. Edwards] [number xviii] A talk by Col. Edwards to the Bethel boys who met at his home June 24, ’91. Published by request of the members of the…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Annual catalogue of the officers and students of Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, 1902
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In His Home: Memories of Dr. N. T. True
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In His Home: Memories of Dr. N. T. True by Marian True Gehring Entrance hall, Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True residenceBethel, Maine, circa 1885 Many appreciative words have kept my father’s memory green, coming from many sources, and gratefully…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 19]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. [By Col. Clark S. Edwards] No. 19 At the close of our last number we were in the rifle-pits that we had captured at such terrible loss on that tenth of May 1864, at…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Annual catalogue of the officers and students of Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine, 1901
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Dr. Nathaniel T. True
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Dr. Nathaniel T. True by William B. Lapham Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True1812-1887 Editor’s Note: This sketch of Dr. True was read by Dr. Lapham before the Maine Historical Society, 17 March 1892. Dr. Nathaniel Tuckerman True was born in that…
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Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 20]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. [By Col. Clark S. Edwards] No. 20 At the close of our last number we were looking over that awful scene that was presented to our sight at “Bloody Angle” on the morning…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Annual catalogue of the officers and students of Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine. 1900
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Ernest M. Skinner
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Ernest M. Skinner by Stanley Russell Howe Ernest Martin Skinner 1866-1960 In Bethel’s Woodland Cemetery, not far from the Gothic Revival tomb, is the grave of Ernest M. Skinner, one of America’s leading organ makers whose fame spread across…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier
War Reminiscences of the Bethel Company, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment [Number 21]
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WAR REMINISCENCES OF THE BETHEL COMPANY, Company I, Fifth Maine Regiment. [By Col. Clark S. Edwards] No. 21 On Monday, May 16, we were ordered back near Spotsylvania Court House, though we saw very little fighting, for the battle was about over…
Collection: Clark S. Edwards Civil War Articles
Sixty-third annual catalogue of the officers, teachers and students of Gould's Academy, Bethel, Maine. 1898
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O'Neil Watson Robinson: First Owner of the Robinson House
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O'Neil Watson Robinson First Owner of the Robinson House by Stanley R. Howe O'Neil W. Robinson (1797-1867) As certain as can be currently determined, the Broad Street building acquired by the Society in 1998 was built about 1821 by O’Neil…
Collection: Featured Articles from The Courier