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Tag Archives: Maine history
Faces from the Past: Coal Kiln Corners School Students, circa 1920.
Scarborough, Maine – Circa 1920SHS Photo Collection #2014.17.02By Don Taylor The Scarborough Historical Society holds many photographs of Scarborough’s early schools. These images preserve not only the buildings but also the students and teachers who formed the heart of those … Continue reading
Rum Running in Scarborough – 1925
A look back at Prohibition-era Scarborough, when local resident Ralph Woodward had his car seized for rum running. A 1925 Portland Press Herald article reveals how the national struggle over alcohol reached even Maine’s quiet coastal towns. Continue reading
Scarborough Town Farm Cemetery
Ron Romano’s The Graves of Scarborough’s Paupers: The Town Farm Cemetery, 1867–1891 offers a moving, thoroughly researched account of Scarborough’s 19th-century approach to caring for its poorest citizens. When the town purchased the Brackett Farm in 1867, it became a … Continue reading
Posted in Cemeteries, History, Notable Papers & Presentations, Scarborough History, Social Welfare & Poor Relief
Tagged 19th century, alms house, Broadturn Road, cemetery history, Deborah Dyer, Dunstan Cemetery, forgotten graves, historical research, Maine history, necrogeography, Overseers of the Poor, paupers, paupers’ field, Poor Farm, Priscilla Burnham, Ron Romano, Scarborough Historical Society, Scarborough Maine, social welfare, town farm, Town Farm Cemetery, town reports
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Letting Out the Poor
Ron Romano’s Letting Out the Poor uncovers the mid-19th-century system of poor relief in Scarborough, Maine, through the logbook of Ebenezer Libby, Overseer of the Poor from 1857–1867. The paper explains how impoverished residents were “let out” to townspeople—essentially placed in homes where … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century Maine, History, Notable Papers & Presentations, Presentations, Scarborough History, Social Welfare & Poor Relief
Tagged 19th century, alms house, Augusta Lowell, Dorothea Dix, Dunstan Cemetery, Ebenezer Libby, genealogy, Historical Documents, letting out the poor, Maine history, Overseers of the Poor, paupers, poor relief, Priscilla Burnham, Ron Romano, Scarborough Maine, social history, Theodore Libby, town farm, Town Farm Cemetery, town records
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