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. 

Scarborough Audubon Center by Linda Woodward

This program dives into the exciting world of the Scarborough marsh, looking at animals, people, and how the land has changed. It examines how humans have used the marsh and how the marsh center itself came to be. It also looks at how the diversity of animals has changed over the years, noting what species have left the marsh and what animals have developed there. Some species have recovered and now are in abundance, while others have become endangered. The marsh is changing due to climate change, and the program looks at what the marsh could be like in the future.

A Library Comes to Scarborough–a celebration of 125 years of service

The Scarborough Public Library celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2025 when Historical Society board member Linda Snow McLoon presented “A Library Comes to Scarborough,” a program describing the library’s beginnings in 1900 in a one room building on the Black Point Road that used kerosene lamps to read by and was heated by a single fireplace. Using the many images in the historical society’s digital collection, the individuals who founded the library and the people who supported its growth over the years are featured. Learn how a staff of hardworking librarians and the Friends of the Library contributed to the library’s growth in size and services over the years.

“Scarborough Fire Department” presented by Nicholas Reichard.

This presentation examines the history of the Scarborough Fire Department. In the early 1900s, many communities, including Scarborough, quickly mobilized following a series of devastating fires in the surrounding area that resulted in the loss of several grand hotels and sparked widespread wildfires. Scarborough began establishing fire stations and assembling fire-fighting equipment at that time. Over the next century, dedicated residents laid the foundation for what has become the proud legacy of today’s Scarborough Fire Department. Nicholas Reichard, a representative of the Fire Department, shares the department’s rich history in this program. Recorded January 5, 2025, sponsored by the Scarborough Historical Society and the Prouts Neck Historical Society.

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.