Harkening back to simpler times, Curator Becky Delaware has put together an exhibit remembering Valentine Days gone by. Visit the Scarborough Historical Museum now through February 9th and see the curated displays.
The Museum is open Tuesdays from 9AM until Noon and the second Saturday of the month from 9AM to Noon. That means the Saturday before Valentine’s Day we are open (Feb 9th).
Annual Reports of the Town of Scarborough. Some of the reports are from the personal collection of Rodney Laughton, others are from the files at the Museum. Individual reports will indicate their source in the Identifier as presented on Digital Maine. The Annual Reports typically include information regarding the support of the poor, the almshouse, various town bills, costs of town roads and bridges, school costs, & teacher salaries.
 1854-55 |
 1861-62 |
 1868 |
 1869 |
 1870 |
 1872 |
 1874 |
 1876 |
 1878 |
 1881 |
On January 6th, 2019, Michael Davis gave a presentation to the Scarborough Historical Society titled “Scarborough’s Black Point – A Century of Conflict.” Below are the images of that presentation. A video of his excellent presentation is here.
The Moulton House was an inn, restaurant, and cocktail lounge at Dunstan Corner. Over the years, the Inn had several names and forms.
Moulton House Collage
The Scarborough Historical Society has 11 images of the Moulton House, which are available for download as a compressed (Zipped) file. Included are:
This scrapbook, accession number 2018-35-1, is a collection of newspaper clippings. The vast majority of the clippings are unlabeled and unidentified as to the newspaper or the date. However, some of the clippings have handwritten dates on them identifying them to be from as early as 1931 to as late as 1950. The majority of dates are 1933. The donor of this scrapbook was Margaret Small.
The clippings primarily include marriage announcements and obituaries with many entries regarding the accomplishments of various Scarborough people.
In its 53 pages there are 74 instances of “Scarboro” six of “Dunstan,” 14 of “Oak Hill,” 22 of “Black Point,” 30 of “Pine Point,” and two of Higgins beach.
The scrapbook was scanned at 400 DPI, cropped as appropriate, and rotated as needed, then it was OCRed using FineReader and exported as a searchable PDF file on Digital Maine.
