December 2018 – SHS Website Activities

Main Room

Maps

1741-1844 Black Point (and Prouts Neck) map uploaded to Digital Maine.

Surname Files

Corporal Lucian Thomas Libby added to Libby Surname File.

Videos

Videos page updated and Maine Barns by Don Perkins was posted to YouTube Playlist,

Back Room (Kitchen)

Photos

Old King Homestead

Posted Postcard “Old King Homestead”  – Old King House where 1st Governor of Maine (William King) was born. Dunstan Corner, Maine. The center section dated to the time of the King Family. The set of buildings was torn down about 1910.

Moulton House Collage

The Moulton House was an inn, restaurant, and cocktail lounge at Dunstan Corner. Over the years, the Inn had several forms (2 story, 3 story, & 4 story) and several names:

• A-1 Steak Pit
• Moulton House
• Scarborough Inn
• Snug Harbor
• Valle’s Inn

Ephemera

Updated the Master Ephemera Finding Aid to the 13 December 2018 version.

Scrapbooks

Scrapbook A2018-35-1, is a collection of newspaper clippings. The vast majority of the clippings are unlabeled and unidentified as to the newspaper or the date. However, some of the clippings have handwritten dates on them identifying them as from as early as 1931 to as late as 1950. The majority of dates are 1933. The donor of this scrapbook was Margaret Small.

Internet

Scarborough Town Reports

Rodney Laughton Personal Collection

Digitized, OCRed, & uploaded “Finance and School Reports of the Town of Scarborough for 1854—55 to Digital Maine.

Digitized, OCRed, & uploaded “Finance and School Reports of the Town of Scarborough for 1861—62 to Digital Maine.

Digitized, OCRed, & uploaded “Finance and School Reports of the Town of Scarborough for 1869 to Digital Maine.

Digitized, OCRed, & uploaded “Finance and School Reports of the Town of Scarborough for 1876 to Digital Maine.

Digitized, OCRed, & uploaded “Finance and School Reports of the Town of Scarborough for 1878 to Digital Maine.