the State Historic Preservation Officer, considers historical archaeological sites that represent the initial Euroamerican settlement in a given location to be a major class of significant sites in Maine (i.e., eligible for, or listed in, the National Register of Historic Places [36 CFR 60.4])....
HOMESUBSCRIBEWHAT'S NEWFIND PLACESPEOPLE & THINGSON TVEVENTS SCV Chronology. A Timeline of Historical Events. By LEON WORDEN. UP TO 57,000 YEARS AGO DNA haplogroups split into haplogroups found in American Indians. UP TO 33,000 YEARS AGO Multiple human archaeological sites in Mexico and ...
Aninteractive mapon NOAA's website shows that places in northern Minnesota like Leech Lake, Grand Rapids and Cloquet have over a 90% chance of seeing at least an inch of snow on Christmas. But places even as far south as Winnebago, Owatonna and the Twin Cities have over a 70% chance ...
The seventeenth-century Annals of the Four Masters state that Kilconnell Franciscan friary was founded in 1353 by William Buí O’Kelly, chieftain of Uí Maine. Subsequent records show that the O’Kellys continued to be the principal (though not the only) patrons of the friary during the cours...
Like my heroine, I’ve always been fascinated by faraway places, especially Europe, but unexpected life circumstances have prevented me from traveling as much as I’d like. As I plotted the course of my fictional scavenger hunt, I specifically chose cities and landmarks I hope to see in re...
Matt was drawn to Historical Concepts by its precedent-based design approach and emphasis on creating architecture rooted to places and climes, retaining traditional aesthetics and building practices while fulfilling contemporary needs. Matt took part in Historical Concepts’ Intern Program in the summer ...
Local Points of interest mapped across the United States, including: National Registry buildings, historical markers, historic places, museums, maps, and other sights to see.
Maine - Last State With Manual Telephone Service When the hand-cranked telephone at Elden Hathaway's home in Bryant Pond, ME, was disconnected in 1983, manual telephone service in the US officially came to an end. Hathaway had run the local telephone company out of his home for years - co...
Following the writing of Arundel, Roberts compiled the journals of the members of Arnold's expedition to attack Quebec through the wilds of what is now the Maine woods north into Canada in the dead of winter. An extremely handsome and very collectible copy with no prior owner's markings, ...
The title page carries a long subtitle reading: "A true account of the reasons which cause Central Europeans to overrun America which lead Russians to rush to Constantinople and other fascinating and unpleasant places which coax Greek royalty and commoners into strange byways and hedges and which ...