From the Ephemera. . .

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Linda Snow-McLoon

By Linda Snow McLoon

Early Scarborough merchants often had elaborate letterheads for their businesses. These three competing retailers did business in Dunstan, where they offered a wide range of inventory to their customers.

W.H.Graffam
Photo Courtesy R. Laughton Collection

W. H. Graffam Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Society

 
 
 

G. W. Knight Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Society

G. W. Knight Store
Photo courtesy R Laughton Collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ephemera from the collections of the Scarborough Historical Society.

J. H. Leavitt Receipt
Courtesy Scarborough Historical Societ

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More High School Yearbooks Added

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Don Taylor

Thanks to Oklahoma Corrections Industries and their High School Yearbook project, we were able to digitize, OCR, and post five more Scarborough High School Yearbooks. 

  1. The Four Corners – 1956 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  2. The Four Corners – 1958 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  3. The Four Corners – 1961 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  4. The Four Corners – 1962 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.
  5. The Four Corners – 1966 – The Scarborough High School Yearbook.

 

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Scarborough Beech Ridge School House Restoration

Posted on October 26, 2021 by Karlene Osborne

October 2021 Update

In the Fall of 2018, the Scarborough Historical Society was given the decades-long vacated one-room schoolhouse building, built in the 1800s and located at 184 Beech Ridge Road. With an estimated budget of $280,000 and through donations and grants, $130,000 has been raised to date. We intend to preserve and share this building with the community.

So far, we have lifted the building, poured a new foundation, replaced rotted sills, closed in the open to the element’s back walls in an addition, installed a basement stairwell and bulkhead. The interior was gutted and a temporary electric service was installed. 

We are grateful for very recent donations that will start the next phase as our Scarborough contractor installs replacement windows and doors, reframes interior walls, removes rotted exterior siding, and installs historically accurate sawn clapboards. As far as funds allow at this time, we may also be able to commission the design for a septic system.

Donations may be made via check and US mail to:

Scarborough Historical Society
PO Box 156
Scarborough, ME, 04070-0156

via our Go Fund Me Page. 

or by cash at the museum (647 U.S. Route One) during our normal hours.

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See the Scarborough Bicentennial Quilt at Town Hall

Posted on October 17, 2021 by Don Taylor

After its display at the Scarborough Public Library, the Scarborough Bicentennial Quilt was moved to Scarborough Town Hall and hung in Chamber B. Early Absentee Ballot voters can view the quilt there until October 28th.

Bicentennial Quilt hanging at Town Hall – Photo by Joyce Alden – Oct 2021

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Mapping Maine With the Osher Map Library – September 21st

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Don Taylor

Banner: Celebrating - Maine's Bicentennial - 200

Update: The presentation was held and is now available for viewing on the Scarborough Public Library YouTube Channel. See: Mapping Maine with the Osher Map Library

March 15, 2020 marked the 200th anniversary of Maine’s Statehood. The Scarborough Public Library and Scarborough Historical Society began to bring a series of programs to our community in celebration of this bicentennial benchmark in early March. The series was made possible through the financial partnership of the Scarborough Public Library and Scarborough Historical Society, and through a grant awarded by the Maine Humanities Council; all events are free to attend. The first program was held at the Library prior to the pandemic. Dr. Liam Riordan, Adelaide and Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine, delivered his talk Past and Present Perspectives in Maine Statehood on the afternoon of March 1, 2020 in the Library’s Meeting Room. Click here to view the recording.

Please call 883-4723 option 4 or email askSPL@scarboroughlibrary.org(link sends e-mail) with questions about the up-coming rescheduled events in the series.

Upcoming Event

Mapping Maine With the Osher Map Library

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 – 6:30pm

Dr. Matthew Edney

Dr. Matthew Edney will deliver this presentation virtually, via Zoom. Dr. Edney curated the Osher Map Library’s Maine Bicentennial Exhibition, Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677-1842. Using digital images of the exhibit and additional items from the OML collection, Dr. Edney will provide an overview of this special installation in this virtual presentation. Digital maps of Scarborough’s marshes – an important part of Scarborough’s early and present history – will also be included. 

Registration is required. Click here to register to receive the Zoom link. The lecture will be recorded so those who cannot attend virtually can view it at a later time. Please call 883-4723 option 4 or email askSPL@scarboroughlibrary.org(link sends e-mail) with questions. To request a link to the recording, please email Lucy Norvell, Coordinator of Programming and Communications.  

Dr. Edney has been a professor of geography at the University of Southern Maine since 2007 and is the Osher Professor in the History of Cartography with responsibility for courses in map history. He is also “faculty scholar” in the Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education. Since 2005 he has also directed the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Bicentennial series was made possible through the financial partnership of the Scarborough Public Library and  Scarborough Historical Society, and through a grant awarded by the Maine Humanities Council in the fall of 2019. One event was held prior to the Library’s closure due to the pandemic in mid-March. 

Duplicate of information from the Scarborough Public Library.
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