Pejepscot Historical Society
PHS collects items relating to the history of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine. We own and operate the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum and the Skolfield-Whittier House.
PHS collects items relating to the history of Brunswick, Topsham, and Harpswell, Maine. We own and operate the Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum and the Skolfield-Whittier House.
Special library, archives, ephemera, photographs and postcards, and genealogical information relating to the history of the town of Bristol.
Genealogical research materials at Madawaska Public Library on Main Street; Tante Blanche Museum complex in nearby St. David which includes log cabin Reception Center, one room school house (ca. 1870), & Albert Homestead (ca. 1840), all with pertinent artifacts, as well as the Historic Acadian Cross Site on the shore of the St. John River, commemorting the landing of the Acadians in 1785.
1810 home with period furniture, model school room, marine artifacts, genealogy materials, pictures, postcards, documents, antique tool tool collection and decoys - all related to the history of Machiasport between 1810 and 1929 with emphasis on ship building, sailing, logging and living from the sea.
The collection is primarily focused on the history of Hope and contains family papers, photographs, artifacts, maps, some furniture, some china, some small farm implements and Hope Historical House - the 1818 Henry Handley house, with shed and barn. There is a small collection of genealogies and local histories of surrounding towns.
Our library and archives include Wells and Ogunquit histories, private cemetery records, vintage photographs and postcards, vital records, town records going back more than 100 years, family genealogies, maps, and a list of historically significant buildings in Wells and Ogunquit. There are also volumes of New England and U.S. histories as well as the York County Genealogical Library.