Harpswell Historical Society

The Harpswell Historical Society is seeking  artifacts, printed material and photographs pertaining to Harpswell History and/or Harpswell residents.  We are especially interested in compiling a collection of Harpswell town reports, news items from newspapers which deal with Harpswell (especially articles by Margaret Todd), yearbooks from Brunswick High School up to 1974 and from Mt Ararat High School from 1974 thru the presentand artifacts from the many social organizations which existed in Harpswell (Redmen, Grange, Odd Fellows, Freemasons, Knights of the Golden Sword, Kings Daughters,  etc.).

• Bibliography -  Reference books and articles dealing with Harpswell History

• Captain David Perry Sinnett (1843-1913

• Cundy's Harbor - a 1959 article from Maine Coast Fisherman

• Early Settlers and Landowners in Harpswell

• Harpswell Hotels

• Harpswell Neck Library

• Harpswell Neck Yacht Club

• John Darling Hermit of Pond Island; Fact from Fiction

• Letters/Diaries - Transcribed material from the Historical Society Archives of personal documents
  • G.A. Ramsdell to Edward P. Pennell  1864 Civil War 
  • R. S. Melcher to Edward 1862 on a ship near Africa
• Oral History of Harpswell Residents
  • Life in Early to Mid 1900s Harpswell Grades 3, 4, 5 Harpswell Islands and West Harpswell Schools
  • Occupations of an earlier Harpswell West Harpswell School
• Rise and Demise of the Cattle Pound
• The Story of the Old Meeting House
• A Timeline of Harpswell History (particularly Orr's Island) 
• Two Early Warrants for Town of  Harpswell  (1756, 1758)
• Teachers' Contracts 1907