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Category Archives: Prout’s Neck
Upcoming: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck.
Now available via YouTube. Mapping Scarborough & Prouts Neckby Phil von Stade. Prouts Neck Historical Executive Director Philip von Stade will cover the evolution of Scarborough maps from 1605 to the present, from cartographers like Champlain to Google Earth and Apple. … Continue reading
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Fredrick Augustus Miller (1854-1927)
The museum recently received a wonderful photo of Fredrick Miller. According to the information on the back of the photo Fredrick: Fredrick Miller Born 1855 – Died 1927. … Continue reading
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Updates October 2022
In October 2022, the following items were added to the website: Organizations 12th Maine Regiment (Civil War) Twenty-seventh Reunion of the 12th Maine Regiment – Dunstan, 10 September 1908. I added a photo of the West Scarborough Methodist Church (circa 1928). … Continue reading
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The Smalls in Scarborough – by Augustus K. Small
I was recently asked to do some research of the Small family in Scarborough, in particular James Frances Small (1835-___). I, of course, went to the Surnames files and looked for the Small file. The first thing I found was … Continue reading
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The Wreck of the Sagamore
By Linda McLoon* It was snowing on Saturday evening, January 24, 1934, when the steel freighter, Sagamore, left Portland Harbor, bound for Boston with a hold filled mainly with large bolts of woolen material and oilcloth. The storm had intensified … Continue reading
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