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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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Mars Hill News 

Fort Fairfield Review and others

Aroostook Republican and others

Presque Isle Star Herald and others

Houlton Newspapers

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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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History of Mars Hill 

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.

 

History of Bridgewater, Maine

 by Annie E. Rideout
 

History of Aroostook, v.1

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)

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