Maine oddities

The New Meadows Canal

Posted on March 30, 2012 by dlsoucy

One of the earlier methods of transportation in this country was our waterways, (viz. rivers and lakes) and as time progressed in the early days; canals were often built when there was no waterway. Here in Maine we had few canals that were actually built for the purpose of moving freight and people. The vast [...]

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The Purrinton Tragedy: Augusta, 1806

Posted on March 2, 2012 by dlsoucy

I came across a good story while doing some research on the Augusta area, just the type of stuff you ghost hunters out there love to hear about. According to the story, A James Purrington moved from Bowdoinham to a farm on the Belgrade road and subsequently massacred his family with an ax and the [...]

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Maine’s Part in the Fenian War of 1866

Posted on November 1, 2011 by dlsoucy

Civil War history is all the rage this year as we celebrate the sesquicentennial of that great conflict. It’s funny how we call it the Civil War, when in fact it was anything but a civil war. In reality, it is more properly called the War for Southern Independence, or secession. We seem to forget [...]

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Maine’s Malta War

Posted on October 28, 2011 by dlsoucy

This story relates the uprising of the settlers from an area we know today as Windsor, Maine. Only one person was killed, and seven men were tried for the murder of that one man. Follow along as we explore a moment in Maine’s past…. The Malta War An uprising in Maine The town of Malta [...]

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The Murder of Mary Knight

Posted on October 26, 2011 by dlsoucy

The Murder of Mary Knight Every year at about this same time a flurry of stories arise from the Poland, Maine area regarding a supposed specter wandering the highway and back roads of this sleepy little community of just a few thousand living souls. Hard telling how many dead souls are wandering around, but some [...]

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Joshua Chamberlin’s Civil War Letters Online

Posted on November 17, 2010 by dlsoucy

Here are a few more headlines from around the state of Maine’s newspapers. If you have any headlines you’d like to share, please forward them to me at editor@remembermemedia.com, and please enclose a link to the article as well as the contents first couple of lines. Thanks for your help! Not your Run of the [...]

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The Wild Men of Gorham Maine

Posted on September 7, 2009 by dlsoucy

For those of you who’ve been following me for a while, you have more than likely noticed that I tend to dig up some really odd Maine history snippets from many of the older histories and other literature that has been published from Maine’s past. One of my favorites has been the story of the [...]

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