A detailed map and history of Maine's Covered Bridges.

Several groups of original peoples are mentioned in this brief history of Mount Desert Island's free, public park.

Information about collections, which includes oral histories from Aroostook County, Acadian traditions, maritime and lumbering histories.

Northern Europeans, native Americans, and Asians enjoyed contact, through circumpolar sea travel, including what is now coastal Maine, for thousands of years before Columbus' celebrated voyage. Film synposis.

Extensive literature reviews, links, historical documentation and just plain fun. Site invites submissions of Franco American Heritage and current works.

Review of C. Stewart Doty's compilations of Franco American information and writers during the first half of twentieth century. Done as Federal Writers' Project called "Franco-American tales." Review by Juliana L'Heureux in 1997

Maine Acadians' French ancestors settled during the 1600s in what is now the Maritime Provinces, Quebec, and Maine. They spoke 'Valley French', a mixture that includes old French, Quebecois, and English termssometimes mixed within a sentence.

A project of the Maine Historical Society; provides access to documents, maps, and photographs chronicling the state's history. Online purchase of images.

This British scientific page discusses peoples who likely traveled to the north American continent ten thousand years ago. Maine archaeologists are discovering extensive villages and burial places of Red Paint People.

Online historical photo archive Nos Histoires de L'Ile (Our Stories of the Island) has been created by current and former residents of French Island. A rare collection of over 1000 photographs of people and places taken in the 1880's.

Article discusses historic trail and families from Canada who who settled in New England.

A page about the Pemaquid region of Maine, its history and historical sites.

Theory and controversy surrounding the Red Paint People in Maine.

Provides links to state, county, town, cities, famous people, religion, and historical events from the years 1500-2000.

Experience history firsthand. The Center is comprised of the Maine Historical Society Research Library, the Maine History Gallery, and the historic Wadsworth-Longfellow House.

A medium of The Franco-American Women's Institute lays out an enormous variety of history, ideas, thoughts, facts, and even favorite old time recipes such as Acadian specialty, Rapure (Chiard).

Provides theories of origin, evidence from Red Paint sites, photographs of artifact, and a time line.

From about 4500 to 4000 years ago, a group of Red Paint people (named for the red ocher found in their graves) lived on the northeast coast of the United States, in Maine. Called the people of the Moorehead Phase, they hunted swordfish, buried their dead with valuable imported grave goods and elaborate ritual, and were masters in woodworking and watercraft.