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  • Wabanaki Acknowledgement

    N’ kanayoo! – Of the Olden Time

    Our city sits on the unceded lands of the Abenaki Peoples who have been the traditional caretakers of the Kennebec River valley for thousands of years. Their ancestral lands include the Keedumcook, which is also known as Hallowell. We honor their relationship with this land.

    -Adapted from the acknowledgement of the Vaughan Woods and Historic Homestead Foundation
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    Kennebec River

  • Hallowell in Stereo

    Deep in the collections of the Hubbard Free Library are nearly 100 stereoscopic images of Hallowell in the late 1800’s with images ranging from views of the downtown area to the granite industry in action. The pictures were made using a camera with two lenses about as wide apart as human eyes. The majority of the cards in the Hubbard collection were produced by the A.F. Morse studio of Hallowell. Augustus F. Morse was one of Hallowell's premier photographers in the late 1800s.
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  • Martha Ballard

    Marth Ballard, the now well-known midwife, served mothers and children in the “Hallowell” community in the late 18th and early 19th century. What made Martha Ballard's life even more remarkable than it was in fact is that it was recorded for history in her diary-- a diary that covered the last 27 years of her life and included 10,000 entries over a period of 9,965 days. This is one of the few detailed chronicles of women’s life during that period.
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    Photo by Dave Dostie

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