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  • Tags: Pleasant Valley Grange No. 136 (Bethel, Me.)

COLL 2: Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project

Finding Aid / In-house Use Only

The Oxford County Grange Hall Tour Project collection includes oral history interviews, slides, photographs, and negatives, and a small number of miscellaneous documents created during the Oxford County County Grange Hall Tour Project in 2000 and…

Collection: Finding Aids

Interview with Pauline Applin

Oral History / In-house Use Only

Interview with Pauline Applin conducted by Dianne Ballon for the Oxford Country Grange Tour Project.

Pauline Applin was a member of Pleasant Valley Grange #136 in West Bethel, Maine.

Pleasant Valley Grange No. 136

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Still Image / Available Online

Following on the heels of the Farmer's Club movement, the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) became highly popular throughout northern New England in the 1870s. Such organizations not only provided important social activities for isolated farm…