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Name, City, Type of Resource

Famous People  Maine

  Maine

  Brewer

  Chamberlain Freedom Park

  880 North Main Street

  Brewer  ME   04412    

  Phone  207 989-7468

  Web Site http://www.mainemuseums.org/htm/museumdetail.php3?orgID=12

  Alt Web http://www.joshua.lurker00.com/jlcpics3.htm

  Description  2/3 size replica of Little Round Top area of Gettysburg, erect statue to

                    Col. Joshua Chamberlain, with additional markers and monuments

  Type of Resource  History Related Organization

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  Nature of Group or Site  Outdoor

  Era  Civil War

  Owner/Operator:  Brewer Historical Society

  New or Updated:  6/11/2007

  Brunswick

  Joshua L Chamberlain Museum

   226 Maine Street

  Brunswick  ME  04011    

  Phone  207 729-6606

  Web Site http://www.curtislibrary.com/pejepscot/phshours.htm

  E-mail  mailto:phs@suscom-maine.net

  Description  home of Civil War hero at Gettysburg, Maine Governor, President of

                    Bowdoin College

  Type of Resource  House Museum

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  Era  Civil War

  Owner/Operator:  Pejepscot Historical Society

  New or Updated:   5/15/2007

  ME
  Brunswick
  Peary-Macmillan Arctic Museum
  Bowdoin College
  Hubbard Hall
  Brunswick  ME  04011 
  Phone  207 725-8731
  Web Site  http://academic.bowdoin.edu/arcticmuseum/
  E-mail  mailto:nwagner@bowdoin.edu
  Description  Honors two Arctic explorers, memorabilia, artifacts
  Type of Resource  Museum
  Primary Focus  Famous People
  New or Updated:  07/28/2003 

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  Pittson
  Arnold Expedition Historical Society
  Arnold Road
  MAIL RR4, Box 6895 Gardiner ME
  Pittson  ME  04345  
  Phone  207 582-7080
  Web Site  http://www.rootsweb.com/~aehs/home.html
  Alt Web  http://travel.mainetoday.com/regions/kr/
  Description  located in Major Reuben Colburn House, features Benedict Arnold's                         invasion of Canada
  Type of Resource  History Related Organization
  Primary Focus  Famous People
  New or Updated:  10/06/2003

  ME
  Portland
  Wadsworth-Longfellow House
   487 Congress Street
  Portland              ME          04101    
  Phone              207 772-1807
  Web Site   http://www.mainehistory.org/
  E-mail  mailto:info@mainehistory.org
  Description      childhood home of well-known poet
  Type of Resource       House Museum
  Primary Focus    Famous People
  Owner/Operator:     Maine Historical Society
  New or Updated:              12/1/2003

  ME

  Rockland

  Farnsworth Art Museum and Wyeth Center

  16 Museum Street

  Rockland  ME    04841    

  Phone 207 596-6457

  Web Site www.farnsworthmuseum.org

  E-mail  mailto:farnsworth@midcoast.com

  Description  American Art, new center for Wyeth family, Louise Nevelson, Edward

  Type of Resource  Gallery

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  Collection N-Z  Paintings

  Research  Library

  New or Updated:  11/23/2006

  ME

  Skowhegan

  Margaret Chase Smith Library

  54 Norridgewalk Ave

  Skowhegan  ME        04976    

  Phone   207 474-7133

  Web Site  http://www.mcslibrary.org/

  Description  home of first woman elected to both houses of the US Congress, extensive document collection

  Type of Resource   Museum

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  Research /Reading  Library

  Owner/Operator:  Northwood University

  New or Updated:          12/20/2005

  ME

  South Harpswell

  Admiral Robert E Peary Home

  Eagle Island State Historic Site

  Eagle Island

  South Harpswell  ME  04079    

  Phone   207 624-6080

  Alt Phone   207 693-6231

  Web Site  http://www.pearyeagleisland.org/default.htm

  Alt Web  http://outdoors.mainetoday.com/news/040808statepark.shtml

  Description  home of famous explorer

  Type of Resource   House Museum

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  New or Updated:  11/1/2004

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  ME

  Thomaston

  Montpelier - The General Henry Knox Museum

  US Rt1 & ME Rt 131S

  Box 326

  Thomaston         ME           04861    

  Phone   207 354-8062

  Web Site  http://www.generalknoxmuseum.org/

  Description  home of Revolutionary War artillerist, first US Secretary of War

  Type of Resource   House Museum

  Primary Focus  Famous People

  Era  1794

  New or Updated:             1/17/2006

  ME
  Thomaston
  Thomaston Historical Society
  Knox
  PO Box 384
  Thomaston                       ME         04861  
  Phone   207 354-2295
  Web Site  http://www.thomastonhistoricalsociety.com/
  E-mail  mailto:katsmeow@adelphia.net
  Description  located in only remaining structure of Henry Knox complex
  Type of Resource   Museum
  Primary Focus  Famous People
  Collection N-Z  Photography
  Era  Revolutionary War
  New or Updated:   12/9/2003