Northern Europeans, native Americans, and Asians enjoyed contact, through circumpolar sea travel, including what is now coastal Maine, for thousands of years before Columbus' celebrated voyage. Film synopsis.
A project of the Maine Historical Society; provides access to documents, maps, and photographs chronicling the state's history. Online purchase of images.
Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine.
Several groups of original peoples are mentioned in this brief history of Mount Desert Island.
Experience history firsthand. The Center is comprised of the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House.
Extensive literature reviews, links, historical documentation and just plain fun. Site invites submissions of Franco American Heritage and current works.
Provides theories of origin, evidence from Red Paint sites, photographs of artifact, and a time line.
Information about the French ancestors settled during the 1600s in what is now the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Maine.
Ezine filled with poetry, history, ideas, thoughts, facts, and Acadian recipes from The Franco-American Women's Institute.
Online historical photo archive Nos Histoires de L'Ile (Our Stories of the Island) has been created by current and former residents of French Island. A rare collection of over 1000 photographs of people and places taken in the 1880's.
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