Videos

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum Videos

SHS Videos are available at three locations:

You Tube – Newer society videos have been uploaded to YouTube and are available to the public on the Scarborough Historical Society Channel. Video Binder – Several years ago many of our videos, which were on VHS Tape, were converted to DVD format. Here is a listing of those videos. They are available for viewing at the Scarborough Historical Museum.

Video Rack – All of the videos are available for viewing at the museum. 

Videos currently available online (YouTube.Com)

The Scarborough Historical Society Channel allows you to play many of the Scarborough Historical Society videos at home or on your mobile device. 

The Lost Pequawket Tribe of the Saco River – Presented by Brenton Hill on November 3rd, 2024.

https://youtu.be/t43N7kkfg-I

Paupers’ Graves: Scarborough’s Town Farm Cemetery, 1867-1891 by Ron Romano

Farming in Maine at the Time of Statehood
Presented by Neil Piper.
Farming methods at the time Maine achieved statehood differed vastly from how agriculture is practiced today. This program will look at how farmers eked a living from the soil in Maine in the early 19th century and the role they played in Maine becoming a state. It will show how a Department of Agriculture was developed to support the growing agricultural industry.
Prominent Diseases in the 17th, 18th, & 19th Century Scarborough, Maine – By Dr. Stephen Spalding

March 2024 – Slavery in Maine by Alicia Harding
February 2024 – Portrait of a 19th Century Family Through their Letters by Linda Snow McLoon
Maine’s Logging Heritage
By Mary Morton Cowan
“Like Father, Like Sons: Scarborough’s Burbank Family in the Revolutionary War.”
by Linda Snow McLoon – February 19, 2024 at the Blue Point Congregational Church.

Scarborough Historical Map Tour
1871-2024
By Dominic Tracey		Mapping Prouts Neck
by Phil von Stade
The Roadside Cabins of Scarborough
by Rodney Laughton
Early Tourism in Maine
by Linda McLoon
Mapping Maine with the Osher Map Library by Dr, Matthew Edney
Voting Down the Rose
by Anne B. Gass*

Past and Present Perspectives in Maine Statehood by Dr. Liam Riordan
(March 1, 2020)
The Prince Project: Enslavement in Maine 1600-1800″ by Vana Carmona (February 2, 2020)

Prouts Neck Highlights
by Phil von Stade*
Voting Down the Rose
by Anne B. Gass*
The King Trunk
by Becky Delaware		Sept. 2019 – Inventing Vacationland
by Scott Andrews*
May 2019 – From Volcanoes to Glaciers by Steve Pinette *
April 2019 – Maine’s Early Tourism
by Linda McLoon *
Mar 2019 – Scarborough Stories at MHS by Kathleen Neumann*
Feb 2019 – Maine in the Civil War by Ashley Towle, Ph.D.*

Jan 2019 – Scarborough’s Black Point – A Century of Conflict by Michael Davis*		 Dec 2018 – Maine Barns by Don Perkins

Nov 2018 – I Feel Your Pain:
19th Century Patent Medicines
by Roberta Ransley-Matteau		     

Oct 2018 – Podcasts by Crystal Ponti


Sep 2018 – Tide Mills by Bud Warren		Maine in World War I by Jason Libby
April 2018 – Longfellow HouseMarch 2018 – “Trolleys…”

Feb. 2018 – Scarborough Cemeteries		 
March 2017 – Wooly Mammoth
2017 – Thank You for your Support
1996 – Preserving the Past for the Future

What’s It – Scarborough Historical Society (Maine) volunteers Roger Delaware, Don Taylor, and Becky Delaware talk about various items in the museum and what those objects are. “What is it,” or as we say in Maine, “What’s It” – Presented January 2017. (Please note: The quality of this video is poor.)

Also of interest: 

SEDCO – Scarborough Economic Development Corporation produced an excellent series of videos regarding how Covid affected five Scarborough businesses. Represented are:

For more information on this project and “The Road to Recovery 2020 & Beyond,” please see the SEDCOMAINE.COM website.