NEWCASTLE, MAINE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY

P.O. Box 482
Newcastle, Me 04553

Email Address:
newcastlehistoricalsociety@hotmail.com

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Next Meeting Date
September 7, 20101
7:00 PM
Town Office Meeting Room
Main Street
Business Meeting

Established in 1998, The Newcastle Historical Society provides visitors with a doorway to the past at its museum in the old historic Taniscot Engine House located on Main Street.  There, visitors will find our museum filled with artifacts and historical memorabilia of the heritage of the people that live and have lived within its boundaries. 

In the museum visitors can view old town and tax records,  fire equipment including a restored pumper, genealogical records, archaeological artifacts, The Dinsmore - Flye Pictorial Collection of over 80,000 negatives and photographs, books, a complete cemetery listing from 1758 to 2008, old newspapers and clippings, maps dating back to the 1700s, old postcards, Clark Bottle Collection, tools of yesteryear and hundreds of other artifacts.  Conservation is an integral part of the museum's goals. 

Newcastle is located on the Damariscotta River.  It also includes the villages of Sheepscot on the Sheepscot River, part of Damariscotta Mills on the Great Salt Bay and Damariscotta Lake, and North Newcastle.  Other rural areas include East Newcastle and South Newcastle.

MEETINGS

1st Wednesday Each Month
(Except in January, February & March)
7:00 P.M.  
No Charge to Attend




Taniscot Engine Fire House in 1900
1900 TANISCOT ENGINE HOUSE


1950s TANISCOT ENGINE HOUSE
      
1948 POST OFFICE
SPROUL BUILDING

   

LINCOLN ACADEMY
LATE 1800s  


SHEEPSCOT VILLAGE


STATE OF MAINE


TRAIN LEAVING IN 1950s


   NEWS HIGHLIGHTS        

DAMARISCOTTA LAKE 
NEW BOOK FOR SALE
by 
Edmee Dejean
Julia McLeod
Mary Sheldon
Marilyn Speckman
$23 + $5 postage
All proceeds go to 
Newcastle Historical Society

  

 Web Site Updated:
 September 6, 2011
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ITEMS FOR SALE
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BOOKS
**Tale of Two Rivers 
   (History of Newcastle)
   By Arlene Cole
   ($15 + postage)
**Cemetery Listing
   (1758 to 2004)
   By Geraldine Hanley
   & Nancy Hartley
   ($20 + postage)
**And That's The Way
   Of It:  A Maine Village
   Life 1907 - 2002
   (Sheepscot)
   By Bird B. Stasz
   Photography By 
   Leah W. Sprague
   ($15 + postage)
MAPS
**1816 Map of
   Newcastle Laminated 

   ($20 + postage)
**1816 Map of
   Newcastle Not
   Laminated
   ($10 + postage)
**1878 Drawing/Map
   of Newcastle &
   Damariscotta
   ($5 + postage) 

DVD MOVIE 
**Closing The Circle 
  (Alewife Run In 
  Damariscotta Mills) 
  ($20 + postage)
RAILROAD DRAWINGS
**Two Color Copies 
  ($5 each + postage) 

OLD PHOTOS
**Over 90,000 available
**Prices vary


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