Maine History Sites
The Maine Center for Maine History
Secretary of State's Page (outline of Maine History)
Secretary of State's Page (details of Maine History)
1895 map of Maine (click on 1895 map)
Infoplease (brief history and facts about Maine)
Eastern Woodland Native Americans Information can be found on the district Native American resource page.
S.A.D.#75 Town History Sites
Bowdoin See Bowdoinham and Topsham
Bowdoinham History Site (compliled by Lance Libby)
A brief history of the town of Harpswell
Famous Maine People
Click on the following names to find information about these famous Maine people. Any urls with libby/fmp in them are scanned from Maine's Claim to Fame and will take longer to open. However, the information is good and worth the wait.
For short biographies of the following people, click on the Secretary of State's Famous People Site. Some are political figures, some are known for work in art and literature, some are sport figures, some are entertainers, and some are entrepreneurs.
Percival Baxter L.L. Bean James Blaine Cindy Blodgett Mike Bordick Milton Bradley George Bush Joshua Chamberlain William Cohen Ricky Craven Patrick Dempsey Dorothea Dix John Ford Melvin Fuller Joey Gamache Chester Greenwood Hannibal Hamlin Marsden Hartley David E. Kelley Stephen King William King Linda Lavin Henry W. Longfellow Andrea Martin Edna St. Vincent Millay George Mitchell Edmund Muskie Jud Nelson Edwin A. Robinson Victoria Rowell Tim Sample Joan B. Samuelson Margaret Chase Smith Samantha Smith Robert Stanley Harriet Beecher Stowe Bill Swift Liv Tyler E. B. White Andrew Wyeth