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Acadia National Park -- History Acadia National Park -- History
Several groups of original peoples are mentioned in this brief history of Mount Desert Island's free, public park.
http://americanparknetwork.com/parkinfo/ac/history/index.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
American Folklife Center: Services to Maine American Folklife Center: Services to Maine
Information about collections, which includes oral histories from Aroostook County, Acadian traditions, maritime and lumbering histories.
http://rs7.loc.gov/folklife/states/maine.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Film of Leif Eriksson's Vinland Film of Leif Eriksson's Vinland
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. ...
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/norse.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Maine Acadian Culture - National PArk Service Maine Acadian Culture - National PArk Service
Maine Acadians' French ancestors settled during the 1600s in what is now the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Maine. They spoke 'Valley French', a mixture that includes old French, ...
http://www.nps.gov/maac/ - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Maine Memory Network Maine Memory Network
A project of the Maine Historical Society; provides access to documents, maps, and photographs chronicling the state's history. Online purchase of images.
http://mainememory.net/ - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Maine's Red Paint People Maine's Red Paint People
This British scientific page discusses peoples who likely traveled to the north American continent ten thousand years ago. Maine archaeologists are discovering extensive villages and burial places of ...
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf073/sf073a01.htm - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Prehistoric Era - Red Paint People Prehistoric Era - Red Paint People
Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine.
http://www.seacoastnh.com/history/prehistoric/redpaint.html - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
The American Local History Network:  Maine The American Local History Network: Maine
Provides links to state, county, town, cities, famous people, religion, and historical events from the years 1500-2000.
http://www.datasync.com/~bouchard/melocalhist/ - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
The Center for Maine History The Center for Maine History
Experience history firsthand. The Center is comprised of the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House.
http://www.mainehistory.org/ - | Travel Details & Reviews

 
Video: Making a Living in Maine, 2,000 BC Video: Making a Living in Maine, 2,000 BC
From about 4500 to 4000 years ago, a group of Red Paint people (named for the red ocher found in their graves) lived on the northeast coast of the United States, in Maine. Called the people of ...
http://www.picturesofrecord.com/tools.htm - | Travel Details & Reviews

 


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