Harpswell Historical Society

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The Harpswell Historical Society is dedicated to the discovery, identification, collection, preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of materials relating to the history of Harpswell and its people.

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Harpswell Links

• Casco Bay

• Friends of Casco Bay

• Casco Bay Online A bibliography of Casco Bay

• Harpswell, Maine Sponsored by Harpswell Business Association

• Harpswell Anchor

• Harpswell Community Television

• Harpswell Festival

• Harpswell Heritage Land Trust

• Harpswell Information

• Harpswell Meetinghouse - Harpswell ME

• Harpswell Town Government
  Quick Description: Harpswell Meetinghouse is a building started in 1757 for use as a Congregational church and as a town meeting hall. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

• Maine Harbors

• Museums by location at Antique Resources!

• Harpswell Neck Fire and Rescue

• James L. Nelson
  Great Historical Writing: James Nelson, a former professional sailor, is committed to bringing to life, through fiction and nonfiction, America's historical connection with the sea. His writing covers a wide range of America's maritime heritage, from piracy in Colonial Virginia to the naval action of the Civil War.

Cundy's Harbor

• Cundy's Harbor Library

• Cundy's Harbor Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue
  Welcome to the home of the Cundy's Harbor Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue

Bailey Island

• Bailey Island Fire Control Station ASR Findings Appendix F

Orr's Island 

(In response to a request from a reader I did a search for information on the internet about Orr's Island history. These are some of the links I found. I do not vouch for their accuracy or relevance)

• Orr's Island Library

• Orr's Island Campground - FAQ Origin of name Orr 

• Maine Attractions in Midcoast Learn about Pond Island

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Schools

• MSAD No 75 Homepage

• Harpswell Islands School

• West Harpswell Elementary School

• Mt. Ararat Middle School

• Mt. Ararat High School

Historical Links

• Maine Memory Network  
  Here in the Maine Memory Network, you have history at your fingertips. You can search for historical documents, view stories on Maine history, save images in an album, purchase images, even create a slideshow to send to a friend.

• Historical Organizations in Androscoggin County

• Casco Bay Online A bibliography of Casco Bay

• Cumberland County Cemeteries 
  Bailey Island Cemetery - (Bailey Island) 
  Cranberry Horn Cemetery; Located in Cundy's Harbor on Sebascodegan Island (aka Great Island)
  Old Harpswell Common Burying Ground (a.k.a. Old Meeting House Cemetery)
  Samuel Dunning Cemetery

• Harpswell, ME Cabin Cruiser Don Disaster, June 1941
  RECOVER FIVE BODIES FROM MISSING BOAT OFF COAST OF MAINE.
  Harpswell, Me., July 1 (AP) -- Recovery of five women's bodies, one of them burned, gave mute evidence today the the cabin cruiser Don with 35 aboard had gone down in lower Casco Bay after an explosion.
  A motor vehicle operator's license found in the clothing of one of the women bore the name "ANN BERNICE STASULIS, 2 Holyoke avenue, Rumford, Me."

• Curtis Memorial Library

• Halfway Rock Lighthouse
  National Maritime Initiative Inventory of Historic Light Stations

• Maine Vital Records Page

• Meeting House
  Information about making the Meeting House an Historic Building 

• The Pejepscot Historical Society

• Sinnett
  List of Works at Maine State Library by Rev. Charles N Sinnett 1847-1929

• National Women's History Project

• WPL Maine History Resources  
  Maine History links from the Waterboro Library

• WPL Maine History Resources  -
  Places

• earlyMaine.org

• Touring Maine’s History
  Come along with me while I tour Maine's historic places and things.We'll be looking at destinations from Kittery to Fort Kent and anywhere in between.Historic sites and events to modern day festivals.If Maine heritage exites you, this is the place to be.

Genealogy Links

• CML Genealogy
  Curtis Memorial Library

• New England Ancestors

• Town of Harpswell Maine Genealogy
  US Genweb

• WPL Maine History Resources People

• 4/22/03: Ancestry World Tree Project Harpswell 
  Requires free registration, but has 20,477 entries for Harpswell

• About Genealogy - The Family Tree and Genealogy Research Guide

• American Family Immigration History Center
  Search for people who came through Ellis Island 1892-1924

• Ancestry.com ­ The most popular genealogy and family history site

• Ancestry.com ­ The most popular genealogy and family history site

• Archaic Medical Terms
  A resource for genealogists and historians

• Cemeteries and Cemetery Records

• Censuslinks

• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet  
  A comprehensive index to over 107,500 genealogical resources on the Internet. You'll find a list of links that point you to genealogical research sites, all categorized & cross-referenced. It's like a "card catalog" to the genealogical collection in the immense library that is the Internet. This site is particularly good, because it has links to genealogical resources in many different countries. Over 1000 new links are added each month!

• FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
  The Latter-day Saints (Mormon) site that allows you to access the top level documentation available from the LDS archives.  Obviously there is no way that they can put their millions of microfilm records online, but what they have available is an excellent starting point for anyone contemplating use of their resources.

• Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site Home Page

• Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site Genealogy How-To Guide
  The Genealogy "How-To" Guide is a great companion for your family research. It contains addresses and information about hundreds of archives and libraries that both beginner and experienced researchers will find useful. It also has step-by-step instructions for locating different types of family information and printable census, correspondence and other forms to speed up your research. Use the buttons below to get started.

• FuneralNet- America's Most Trusted Online Obituary, Funeral, Cremation and Cemetery Resource.

• Genealogy Pages The World's Premier Genealogy Portal

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Introduction 
  The two main sections are web sites and genealogy mailing lists. The web section is extensive though it is somewhat modest related to Cyndi's List; however, the mailing list section is the premier site for such lists with over 25,000 entries and 100 or so added weekly.

• Hamrick Software - U.S. Surname Distribution 
  Enter a surname (last name) into the form below and you'll get a map of the United States showing the distribution of people with this surname within the 50 United States. This map is often helpful when trying to determine a starting point for genealogy projects. The source of this data is the 1850 Census, 1880 Census, 1920 Census, and 1990's phone books. Note that the Census data is a sampling of 1 in 100 names, so the 1990 data is the most accurate.

• Librarians Serving Genealogists (LSG)

• The Olden Times Genealogy & Local History
  Old Newspapers for Genealogy & History Buffs: Obituaries, Births, Marriages, News and More!  Find your ancestors in the news. And those black sheep that belong to your in-laws, too

• RootsWeb.com Home Page  
  The oldest and one of the most extensive genealogy sites on the Internet ... and everything is free. It serves as host to many of the genweb sites (discussed next), thousands of mailing lists, census projects, Cyndi's List, GenConnect boards, has a large number of genealogy search engines, and much more.

• Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
  The most full-featured and up-to-date SSDI search engine on the internet

• The USGenWeb Project - Home Page
  An outstanding project that has pages for each state and each county in each state with extensive links to applicable resources, query boards, surname lists, and most anything else imaginable. You can get to the county pages from the state pages, and to the state pages from the main page shown above. You can also get to the state pages using: www.usgenweb.org/xx where "xx" is the two-letter postal code for the state.

• WorldGenWeb Project
  A project similar to USGENWEB that has sites for every country other than the US. This project is a bit younger than USGENWEB and there are some countries that still  need coordinators; however, these are generally countries that folks have never heard of

Other

• The Weather Channel - Harpswell, Maine

• Yahoo! RegionalU.S. StatesMaineCitiesHarpswell

• Harpswell, Maine
  (Hometown USA)

• Maine's Coastal Cemeteries A Historic Tour
  Webpage featuring a book by Karen Wentworth Batignani who spoke at the HHS annual meeting in 2003