Page/Post Updates – November 2023

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Don Taylor

I made the following changes/additions to the website during November 2023.

Education

Grammar Schools

Dunstan School

Added photo – Student Photos – (Dunstan) Class of 1939.

Class of 1951
Added Photo – Dunstan Grammar School Students – Grade 3 – Back (names).

Early Scarborough High Schools

Photo of the Scarborough High School 1895 Class
Class Photo 1895

Class of 1895

I added the Class Photo – 1895, it includes:

Annie Moses, Edgar Staples, Ed Snow, John O Libby, Louis Peterson, Mabel Leslie, Clara Pillsbury, Grace Cook, Perley Libby, Harry Small, Carrie Libby, Ruth Bartlett, Addie Vaill, & Martha [Hill?].

The New High School 

Class of 1937

I added: Scarborough High School Class of 1937 class photo. (Digital Maine)

People

Genealogy

I created a new menu item and page for Genealogy. In it I added:

Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection

Linwood Dyer assembled a large collection of Genealogical Materials. Included with the material are many 3-ring binders regarding various family lines. Among them is “Scarborough Families.”

Scarborough Families

Scarborough Families – A – 2023.01.16

Scarborough Families – B – 2023.01.16 (pages 1-100)
Scarborough Families – B – 2023.01.16 (pages 101-191)

Organizations

The Oriental Council 

I added: Ledger – Nonesuch Hall Members & Minutes 1887-1950 (with gaps)

Surnames – M

I added:

Milliken

Videos

I added:

The Roadside Cabins of Scarborough
by Rodney Laughton
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Page/Post Updates – October 2023

Posted on October 31, 2023 by scarbo7_wp

Education

SHS Class of 1928

Added photo: Girls Basket Ball Team, 1928 to Digital Maine.

SHS Class of 1931

Added photo: Class Photo – Class of 1931 to Digital Maine

Events

Community Events

1958 – Scarborough 300th Anniversary

Added clippings from the Portland [Me] Sunday Telegram, June 29, 1958.

Library->Places->Maps

Newsclippings

Mapcase – Folder 26 – Houses

Added: [Date unknown] Hughie Milliken Homestead (68 Payne Road).

Links

Scarborough Focused Links
Locales

Prouts Neck

Added link to: Prouts Neck History on Instagram

People

Organizations

I added: Riverside Riding and Dining Club.

Nine Horses and Riders – circa 1936.
Six Horses and Riders – Nov 1936.

Surname Files

I added: D — Durgan surname file.

I added: Leary – Scarborough Families – I J K L, Pages L-35 to L-38 – LEARY – 2023.01.022.

I added Mitchell – Scarborough Families – M, Pages 156-176 – MITCHELL – 2023.01.023.

I added: Family Register – David (1805-1878) & Mary Plummer (1810-___)

Videos

To the Videos page, I added:

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The Roadside Cabins of Scarborough

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Don Taylor

A talk by Rodney Laughton

Vintage photo of the Skillings Cabins, Junction Route 1 & 9, West Scarboro, Me.
Skillings Cabins, Junction Route 1 & 9.

On Sunday, November 5th, at 2:00 p.m., Rodney Laughton will talk about the roadside cabins of Scarborough. Before automobiles provided another travel option, vacationing visitors to Scarborough arrived by train, ships and even horse and carriage, usually staying at accommodations at Prouts Neck or Pine Point. Beginning in the 1920s, with the increasing availability of the automobile, a new type of lodging appeared—the roadside cabin. This program will focus on those businesses that were built in Scarborough. Rodney Laughton, the current president of the Scarborough Historical Society, is a lifelong resident of Scarborough who has been researching and documenting Scarborough history for more than forty years.

Now available on YouTube.

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Page Updates – September 2023

Posted on October 1, 2023 by Don Taylor

Research

Annual Reports

Added Town of Scarborough Annual Report – 2004

Surnames

M

Added: McKenney Envelope – Lynwood Dyer – Maine Room.

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SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RESUME PROGRAMS

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Don Taylor

SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RESUME PROGRAMS
Early Scarborough Tourism
By Linda Snow McLoon

After a long break from offering public programs due to the Covid outbreak, the Scarborough Historical Society will resume presenting programs with speakers at the Scarborough Public Library on Sunday, October 8, beginning at 2:00pm. Speaker Linda Snow McLoon’s program, Early Tourism in Scarborough, will look at the factors that brought visitors to Scarborough in the 19th century, the modes of transportation they used to travel here, and the early summer hotels and cottages in Scarborough that attracted tourists.

The Scarborough Historical Society has scheduled a full roster of programs for the coming year. The next program on November 5will be The Roadside Cabins of Scarborough. Rodney Laughton will tell the story of how a whole new type of lodging popped up – the roadside cabin – after automobiles became available in the 1920s.

VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE

Early Tourism in Scarborough by Linda McLoon

For more information, call the library at 396-6279 or the Scarborough Historical Society at 885-9997.

Photo of three young people in a boat.
SCARBOROUGH’S EARLY TOURISM by Linda Snow McLoon
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Page Updates – August 2023

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Don Taylor

Education

Grammar Schools

Dunstan

Class of 1951 – Added two photos:
Photo – Dunstan Grammar School Students – Grade 7
Photo – Dunstan Grammar School Students – Grade 5

Places

Locales

Plummer’s Hill

Dedication – Boston 120 Milestone, Kings Highway – Route 1, near KMart – 27 Oct 1973 – (Mrs. Hayden Fancy & Mr. & Mrs. Fred Swasey – 2023.19.40. (Photo Back)

Events Page

Community Events

Added: The Maine Hayride – 1988

Research Page

Annual Reports – Town of Scarborough

I added the 1853-1854 Finance and School Reports for Scarborough to Digital Maine. This is a report of the financial transactions of the Town of Scarboro (Scarborough), Maine. It includes Receipts, & Expenditures (Town’s Poor, Roads & Bridges, Abatements, Payments to Town Officers, Sundries, Schools, & Recapitulation). Also includes the Annual Report of the Superintending School Committee of the Town of Scarborough for the year ending March 1st, 1854 and provides information regarding the 13 schools of Scarborough including teacher names and number of students.

Links Page

On our Links Page, I added:

Preservation

PreservationDirectory.com – Online resource for historic preservation, building restoration and cultural resource management in the United States & Canada.

HistoricFunding.com – Database of financial resources, educational programs, and work-training opportunities for historic preservation, home & building restoration, cultural resources, and the arts.

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The Maine Hay Ride

Posted on August 13, 2023 by Don Taylor

Do you remember…35 Years ago….

The Maine Hay Ride: Good News From The Heart of Maine to The Heart of America.

In 1988, due to drought, farmers near Youngstown, Ohio, suffered a small first harvest of hay for their livestock, and a second harvest was nonexistent. Because of a lack of feed, farmers needed to sell off much of their livestock at huge losses. Maine farmers donated thousands of bales of hay to support the Youngstown farmers. Thanks to St. Johnsbury Trucking, the Maine Department of Agriculture, WMTW-TV, and WPOR Radio, help would be on its way. Dropoff locations included the St. Johnsbury Trucking Terminal in Scarborough. A convoy of 20 trailers filled with 10,000 bales of hay headed to Ohio to help the drought-stricken farmers. Mainers can be proud of the donation and Scarborough’s part in the event.

Maine Hay Ride Convoy – August 1988 – 10 trucks with double trailers – moving hay to Ohio.

For more information about the 1988 Maine Hay Ride, see newspaper clippings and photos on the SHS Website. 

https://tinyurl.com/SHS-1988-HayRide2

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Page Updates – July 2023

Posted on August 1, 2023 by Don Taylor

Education

Early Scarborough High Schools

Scarboro High School Catalog – 1893-1894 – Includes Graduates, Class of 1893 & First Class (’94).

Places

Newspaper Clippings

1913 Clipping — “Stroudwater Falls – Gen. Samuel Waldo’s Eight Hundred Acre Land Purchase, A. D. 1732.” It includes mention of several Scarborough people including Nathan Knight, George Knight & hie wife Mary, Richard Ring [King], Alexander Roberts & his wife Margaret, Ebenezer Seve and his wife Elizabeth, & Westbrook Knight.

Surname Files

Surname S

Added Stanford.

Things

Journals/Diaries

I added the 5 May 1843 Journal of Martha F Boody to Digital Maine.
This diary needs indexing. (From the Dyer Collection)

I added the 22 October 1843 Journal of Martha F Boody to Digital Maine.
This diary needs indexing. (From the Dyer Collection)

I added the 26 March 1844 Journal of Martha F Boody. to The Internet Archive. This diary needs indexing. (From the Dyer Collection)

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Warrant – 20 March 1826 – Cattle Restriction & The Widow Moody.

Posted on July 11, 2023 by Don Taylor

Warrant to John Dunnell Constable of Scarborough
1826
Warrant no. 1 
   Recorded

——  Front  ——

To John Dunnell Constable of the Town of Scarborough.

Image of 1826 Warrant.

You are hereby required in the name of the State of Maine to summon and notify the inhabitants of said town qualified to vote in town affairs to assemble at the meeting house in the first parish in said town on Monday the third day of April next at eleven o’clock A.M. to act on the following articles viz.

1st To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting.
2nd To see if the town will restrict cattle from going at large the year ensuing and vote accordingly
3rd To see if the town will except a bill from Joshua Libby in regard to building a house for the widow Moody and her daughters town paupers & vote accordingly.
4th To pass and vote or votes relative to the above.

Given under our hands this twentieth day of March 1826.

Joseph Fogg      } Selectmen of
Joshua Libby     }  Scarborough

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Image of cover and completion of 1826 Warrant, town of Scarboro, Maine

Scarboro March 23 1826

By virtue of this warrant I have notified the inhabitants of said Town to meet at the time & place & for the purpose within mentioned.

   John Donnell } Constable.

[Transcription by Betty McKown, Scarborough Historical Society: Encapsulated Collection #38 – Note to the Constable to notify inhabitants of town to vote regarding building a home for the widow Moody.]

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Warrant – 24 Feb 1840 – Vote on Strip Annex to Saco?

Posted on June 27, 2023 by Don Taylor

Warrant 1840
Febry 24
Recorded

——  Front  ——

To James Larrabee one of the constables of the town of Scarborough you are hereby required in the name of the State of Maine to summon and notify the inhabitants of said town (qualified by the constitution to vote in town affairs) to assemble at the meeting house in the first parish in said town on Monday the twenty fourth day of Feb inst at two o’clock in the afternoon to act on the following articles viz.

  1. To choose a moderator to regulate said meeting.
  2. To see what method the Town will take to defend the towns right against the petition of Willis McKenney and others praying that the patent strip so called in Scarborough might be set off from said Scarborough and annexed to the town of Saco.

Given under our hands this thirteenth day of Feb. one thousand eight hundred ad forty.

Stephen Waterhouse }
Solomon Stuart          } Selectmen of
Solomon Bragdon      } Scarborough

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Cumberland February 17, 1840, Pursuant to the within warrant I have notified the within named inhabitants, to meet at the time and place and for the purpose within specified as therein directed.

   James Larrabee, Constable.

[Transcription by Betty McKown, Scarborough Historical Society: Encapsulated Collection #26 – Warrant regarding 1840 vote on strip being annexed to Saco.]

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