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  • Acadian Archives
    The Acadian Archives is a regional history and cultural archives of material relevant to the history, folklore, and folklife of Maine's St. John Valley, operated by the University of Maine at Fort Kent.

  • Center for Maine History
    Home of the largest collection of Maine related historical treasures. Includes the Maine History Gallery, the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, and the Maine Historical Society's Research Library.

  • Lumbermen's Museum
    The Patten Lumbermen's Museum was established in 1962 to preserve a graphic record of the lumber industry as it evolved in the forests of Northern Maine up to the Second World War.

  • Maine Archives and Museums Directory
    This website is a comprehensive directory of museums, historical societies, archives and historic sites in Maine, created by the Maine Archives and Museums organization in Augusta. The non-profit organization fosters and supports people who identify, collect interpret, and provide access to materials relating to Maine history and culture.

  • Maine Folklife Center
    The Maine Folklife Center and Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History in Orono, is involved in preserving the folklore, folksongs, customs, and oral history of the people of Maine and the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

  • Maine Maritime Museum
    Founded in 1962, Maine Maritime Museum collects, preserves and interprets materials relating to the maritime history of Maine.

  • Maine State Museum
    Maine State Museum in Augusta, Maine presents exhibits of Maine's natural environment, prehistory, social history and manufacturing heritage. Major exhibits include "Made in Maine", "12,000 Years in Maine", and "This Land Called Maine". Other exhibits feature agriculture, fishing, ice harvesting, lumbering, quarrying and shipbuilding.

  • Maine Watercraft Museum
    The Maine Watercraft Museum, located at 4 Knox Street Landing in Thomaston, is an in-the-water hands-on eclectic display of antique and classic smallcraft of unique design and construction and wide array of associated memorabilia. The plethora of boats represents an excellent cross section of Maine's smallcraft boat building industry with boats represented that are indigenous to the area.

  • Milbridge Historical Museum
    Located in beautiful, unspoiled downeast Maine, Milbridge was once a busy shipbuilding center. This museum preserves the record of this shipbuilding era and other historic artifacts related to the town's proud heritage.

  • Nylander Museum
    Maine Governor Lewis Barrows dedicated the Nylander Museum in Caribou in 1939. The museumfeatures the original collections of Olof Nylander (1864-1943), and other collections, which include minerals, marine fossils, animal specimens from northern Maine.

  • Page Farm & Home Museum
    The Page Farm & Home Museum is located in the last original agricultural building on the University of Maine campus. The main barn actually predates the University, having been built between 1860 and 1865.

  • Stanley Museum
    The Stanley Museum keeps and shares the traditions of Yankee ingenuity and creativity as exemplified by the Stanley family in order to inspire those values in children and adults.

Links to other Maine sites

  • Maine Coast Heritage Trust
    The Maine Coast Heritage Trust conserves coastal and other lands that define Maine's distinct landscape. Since 1970, MCHT has helped permanently protect more than 105,000 acres. These lands include valuable wildlife habitat, bold headlands, farm and forest land and 315 entire islands.

An all day trip from Sidney to Windsor and back.

The photo above shows apples going to market in barrels by horse and wagon. The driver is George York of Sidney. The apple barrels were made by Will French of Windsor.

The mid 1800s saw the heyday of Main's apple industry. Apples were packed in barrels and transported by horse and wagon to ports along the coast where they were shipped along the Eastern seaboard to Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, as far south as New Orleans and east to the ports in England. Maine had become one of the principal apple growing regions of the world.

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