Men find treasure in ‘cellar hole somebody told us about’
One item appears to be a relic made of silver.
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Century-old film shows Maine firefighters using horses, carriages and ‘self propellers’ to save lives
“The people who produced this short, yet historic film are not known.”
See one of the coolest maps of Maine (before we knew where the state really was)
It depicts Maine with its disputed boundaries in 1820, the year it became the country’s 23rd state.
When 8-year-olds demanded more: The little-known child labor strike of Brunswick
“The millworkers lived in Brunswick’s Little Canada along the Androscoggin River, four blocks of filthy, decrepit, company-owned tenements.”
Watch the shapes of Maine and the rest of the states evolve over 400 years
What we think of today as Maine lacked its top half until the 1760s, and was of course a part of Massachusetts until 1820.
Can’t get there from here: Century-old map shows how much more remote Maine used to be
It took about a week to get to Maine from London, for instance.
