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  • Tags: Bethel (Me.)

Maine, the home place / Murad Sayen

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Maine : past & present / by the Maine Writers Research Club

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Made in Bethel : a history of mills and manufacturing in Bethel, Maine, 1774-1976

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Lucy Larcom's Bethel

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Lucy Larcom's Bethel by Stanley R. Howe Lucy Larcom (1824-1893) Observing nature was a major focus of the life of Lucy Larcom (1824-1893), who spent much time in the White Mountain region and especially in the western Maine town of Bethel.…

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History of the town of Bethel, Maine / William B. Lapham

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Finds "Intellectual Activity" in Western Maine Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), circa 1865Photo courtesy of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission Editor’s Note: The letter quoted below was apparently written by…

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From the files of Libbie Lynn Kneeland

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Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2. / By a Sudbury Native.

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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 2.—By a Sudbury Native. In the previous number we have endeavored to outline in a crude, unpolished manner, an upward growth in our Common’s physical condition; from an uncleared…

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Fragments of Local History. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1. / By a Sudbury Native.

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FRAGMENTS OF LOCAL HISTORY. Concerning the Bethel Common. Number 1.—By a Sudbury Native. It is an every day saying that persons, objects or things which drift into our environment for a long, unbroken period, often sink to the level of the common…

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Food for the mind and helps for the body / published by the Ladies' Circle of the Universalist Church, Bethel, Maine

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Farming and Bethel

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Farming and Bethel Text adapted from The Family Farm, a 1975 Bethel Historical Society exhibit guidecompiled and written by Stanley R. Howe Bethel's Agricultural Heritage Earliest Days The potential for making maple sugar from the numerous…

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Eva M. Bean and East Bethel Road

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Eva M. Bean and East Bethel Road A Fifty Year Perspective By Stanley R. Howe Eva Marion Bean (1895-1969) Editor’s Note: A version of this essay was delivered during a Society program held on 14 May 2009. It has been edited and expanded for…

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Ernest Holmes: his life and times [by] Fenwicke L. Holmes

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East Bethel Road / Eva Bean

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Dr. Moses Mason and his house / prepared by the Bethel Historical Society

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Dr. Moses Mason and his house / by Stanley Russell Howe ; illustrations by Sue Wight

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COLL 95: Bethel Universalist Church Records

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Five record books from First Universalist Church in Bethel, Me. Complete transcriptions have been made of all five books.

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COLL 89: Moses Davis Papers

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Collection of papers relating to Moses Davis (1802-1835), who was a Methodist minister in Bethel for a brief period.

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COLL 88: E. C. Vandenkerckhoven Glass Negatives

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Collection of glass negatives, with mostly Bethel scenes, believed to have been taken by E. C. Vandenkerckhoven.

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COLL 87: Hope Tibbetts Collection

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Collection of ephemera and artifacts relating to Bethel and the Bethel area, including a number of items connected with Gould Academy that were once owned by the donor's brother, Edward Bean.

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COLL 84: John K. Brown Collection

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Collection of photos and other items that once belonged to John K. Brown of Bethel. This includes a large number of diaries that belonged to John's father Carl L. Brown.

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COLL 83: Valentine Family Collection

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Large collection of materials related to the Valentine family and to Bethel and the region including:
-- Genalogical notebooks compiled by Mary E. Valentine
-- Miscellaneous paper ephemera, including booklets, brochures, hand-written notes, etc.
-- A…

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COLL 61: Bethel Zoning Law Petitions

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Collection of petitions related to various changes in Bethel, Maine, zoning laws.

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COLL 49: Leonard Bond Chapman Scrapbooks

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Photocopies of scrapbooks compiled by Leonard Bond Chapman. The original scrapbooks are in the collections of the Maine Historical Society.

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COLL 43: Diaries of Maud Pratt Farwell

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Diaries of Maud Pratt Farwell (1872-1964) of Bethel, Maine for the years 1935-1964.

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