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[Various items recorded by Mansfield Packard]

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Various items recorded by Mansfield Packard, mostly from radio broadcasts.
1. Couples Club [?]
2. Central Maine News story about Miss Patricia Packard of Waterville who won an international safety poster award given by the United Commercial…

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101 ideas from history news

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150th anniversary, Porter, Maine, 1807-1957

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1613 Saco, Maine map

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Like other Native Americans inhabiting northern New England, the Pigwackets were a semi-nomadic people, moving easily up and down river in light birchbark canoes in pursuit of sustenance. This 1613 map of Saco, Maine, by Samuel de Champlain includes…

1615 John Keniston and his descendents / compiled by Byrd Etta Miles

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Typescript genealogy.

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1755 Mitchell map detail

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In 1714, a prominent group of Massachusetts men obtained a charter to the “Pejepscot Patent,” a huge tract of land on both sides of the lower Androscoggin River. From the relative safety of Boston, the Pejepscot Proprietors promoted the…

1795 Carleton map

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Abenaki survival in post-Revolutionary Maine (delineated here in a 1795 map by Osgood Carleton), as well as other parts of northern New England, depended on accommodation to the white man's world. Often camping near the newly laid out communities…

1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past

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1796: A Special Year in Bethel's Past The town we now call Bethel began as Sudbury Canada in 1768. It was granted to recognize the services of soldiers who fought in one of several abortive campaigns by Puritan Massachusetts to conquer the…

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1803. Albany in the county of York and commonwealth of Massachusetts. Records of births [1803-1840s]

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Records photocopied from the original book.

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1814 : recol[l]ections of the Chase School House, Woodstock, burned on the night of January 26th, 1883 / [by Sidney Perham]

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1847-1947, West Parish Church, Bethel, Maine

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1850 Census of Maine, mortality schedule / transcribed, edited, compiled, and indexed by Larry S. Glatz

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1858 map detail showing Abbotsville and spring

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Gillette and Huntington’s 1858 wall Map of Oxford County, Maine, identifies Mount Zircon as “Peaked Mt.” and Little Mount Zircon as “Thornton Mt.” Named for Dexter D. W. Abbott, the founder of the mineral spring business on Mount Zircon,…

1880 map detail showing Gilead

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During the late 1840s and early 1850s, the Androscoggin River valley from Bethel, Maine, to Berlin, New Hampshire, was chosen as the best route for a railroad linking Portland with Montreal. This 1880 map (section) of Gilead, the next town west of…

1890-1891. Gould Academy catalogue

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18th century log cabin

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The 1760s and 1770s witnessed the clearing of land and the construction of farmsteads, houses, mills and churches as white people moved up the Androscoggin River to occupy territory long occupied by the Abenaki.

1900 federal population census : a catalog of microfilm copies of the schedules / National Archives Trust Fund Board

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1904 Bethel News Extra Illustrated Edition

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The "Extra Illustrated Edition" of The Bethel News, published on January 6, 1904, differs from the other special editions produced by Bethel newspapers in that it did not accompany a community celebration. The content, however, is much in line with…

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1926 Mount Zircon Ginger Champagne ad

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Flavored and carbonated beverages made with water from the Moon Tide Spring began to appear in the late 1890s. The famous Mount Zircon Ginger Champagne had become the Company’s most popular drink by the 1920s.

1931 Oxford County Citizen Special Edition

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The Special Edition of The Oxford County Citizen published on August 3, 1931, commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Indian Raid, and consists of biographical sketches and photographs of many Bethel residents. Pearl Ashby Tibbetts, who coordinated…

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1974 Bethel Oxford County Citizen Special Edition

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The 1974 Special Edition of The Oxford County Citizen was published by the Bethel Historical Society on the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Settlement of the town of Bethel and the dedication of the Moses Mason House on July 10, 1974. Coordinated…

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1985 Rural Improvement and Reform Conference - Keynote Address by Leo Marx

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Leo Marx speaking at a conference on rural improvement and reform held at the Bethel Inn on October 26, 1985.

1989 Mollyockett Day program

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A modern consequence of Molly Ockett's longstanding fame has been the use of her name in connection with several area businesses, institutions, and events. Other Abenaki of Molly Ockett's time, including Metallak and Sabattis, have had their names…

1994 area guide & directory

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19th-century Maine rugs : Treat Gallery, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, February 8-March 17, 1980

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