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- A history of the state's covered bridges includes a tour with clickable map, photographs, and information on the nine surviving bridges.
- Information about collections, which includes oral histories from Aroostook County, Acadian traditions, maritime and lumbering histories.
- Extensive literature reviews, links, historical documentation and just plain fun. Site invites submissions of Franco American Heritage and current works.
- Northern Europeans, native Americans, and Asians enjoyed contact, through circumpolar sea travel, including what is now coastal Maine, for thousands of years before Columbus' celebrated voyage. Film synopsis.
- Information about the French ancestors settled during the 1600s in what is now the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Maine.
- Online historical photo archive Nos Histoires de L'Ile (Our Stories of the Island) has been created by current and former residents of French Island. A rare collection of over 1000 photographs of people and places taken in the 1880's.
- History of the state from prehistory through the 20th century, from Maine PBS.
- Local information reprinted from A Gazetteer of the State of Maine By George J. Varney. Also includes links to former Governors, biographies, and historical sketches.
- Provides links to state, county, town, cities, famous people, religion, and historical events from the years 1500-2000.
- A project of the Maine Historical Society; provides access to documents, maps, and photographs chronicling the state's history. Online purchase of images.
- British scientific page about ancient peoples who likely traveled to the north American continent. Explores Maine archaeologists recent discovery of villages and burial places of Red Paint People.
- Several groups of original peoples are mentioned in this brief history of Mount Desert Island.
- Experience history firsthand. The Center is comprised of the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House.
- Ezine filled with poetry, history, ideas, thoughts, facts, and Acadian recipes from The Franco-American Women's Institute.
- Provides theories of origin, evidence from Red Paint sites, photographs of artifact, and a time line.
- Article discusses historic trail and families from Canada who who settled in New England.
- Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine.

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