History Resources:
A wealth of historic information can be found in publications at the WTA Hansen Memorial Library and/or online at other collection sites.
Available through the Walter T. A Hansen Memorial Library in Mars Hill, Maine or a library near you utilizing interlibrary loan services are the following titles.
Local Newspapers available online for historical research:
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Fort Fairfield Review and others
Aroostook Republican and others
Presque Isle Star Herald and others
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Books:
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A History of Maine Agriculture, 1604-1860 by Clarence Albert Day
Farming in Maine, 1860-1940, by Clarence Albert Day
Ezekiel Holmes, Father of Maine Agriculture by Clarence A. Day
Henry, Man of Aroostook County, Maine by Milton Teague Lufkin
History of Aroostook v.1 by Hon. Edward Wiggins
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External Resources:
The DigitalMaine Repository (digitalmaine.com) offers these four downloadable books listed below plus many other documents such as maps, photos, journals and more.
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by Seth L. Snow
Mars Hill, Maine Centennial, 1867-1967
by Mars Hill Centennial Committee
From Mayflower to Mars Hill and Beyond: A Snow Journey
by Sandra Snow Barrett Smith Leighton
Mars Hill: Typical Aroostook Town
by Gladys Sylvester Tweedie
Other interesting publications can be found by searching titles.
by Annie E. Rideout
by Hon. Edward Wiggins
At Project Gutenberg: (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37684)
Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure, with descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick
By John S. Springer
The First One Hundred Years of Agriculture in Aroostook County – a paper presented by Justin Howe in 2013 at UMPI under the direction of Dr. Kimberly R. Sebold.
An Investigation of the Mill Development in Aroostook County by Maple Ismay Percival. (https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4815&context=etd)