RESOURCES
Videos
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Lectures Co-hosted with the Lincoln County Historical Association
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The Divided North: Black and White Families in the Age of Slavery
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Joshua Chamberlain: The Man Behind the Hero by Ronald C. White
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Videos produced by Russ Lane, a local filmmaker, include many oral history interviews
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Silent Film: The Seventh Day, filmed in New Harbor and John’s Bay in 1921 and released in 1922; starring Richard Barthelmess, Louise Huff, Frank Losee, and Anne Cornwall.
Pre-History
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Cash, Cassidy, host. “Samoset, his Life and Legacy“. That Shakespeare Life. Episode 344. Nov. 25, 2024. Guest Jody Bachelder.
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Speck, Frank G. Wawenock Myth Texts from Maine. (Forty-third Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1925-26, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1928, pp. 165-198)
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“To 1500: People of the Dawn” (Maine Historical Society, 2000-2010)
Colonial Pemaquid
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Bradley, Robert L. & Helen Camp. The Forts of Maine, 1607-1945: An Archaeological and Historical Survey (Augusta: Maine Historic Preservation Commission: Maine Bureau of Parks and Recreation, 1981)
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Camp, Helen. Pemaquid: Lost and Found (Ancient Pemaquid Restoration, 1967)
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Cartland, John Henry. History of Pemaquid Maine -Twenty Years at Pemaquid (Pemaquid Beach: L.A. Moore, 1914)
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De Paoli, Neill. Life on the edge: Community and trade on the Anglo -American periphery, Pemaquid, Maine, 1610—1689 [dissertation] (Durham: University of New Hampshire, 2001)
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Hough, Franklin B. Papers relating to Pemaquid and parts adjacent in the present state of Maine, known as Cornwall County, when under the colony of New York, comp. from official records in the office of the Secretary of State at Albany, N.Y. (Albany: Weed, Parson, 1856)
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Riess, Warren C. Angel Gabriel: The Elusive Galleon (1797 House; First Edition 2001)
Town of Bristol
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Averill, Phil. Woodstoves and Backhouses: Schoolhouses of Bristol, Maine, 1800-2000 (Bristol: self-published, 2001)
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Dodge, Christine Huston. Vital records of old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine : including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the plantation of Monhegan; vol. 1 – births and deaths (Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1951)
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Dodge, Christine Huston. Vital records of old Bristol and Nobleboro in the county of Lincoln, Maine : including the present towns of Bremen, Damariscotta, South Bristol, and the plantation of Monhegan, Vol. 2 – marriages (Portland: Maine Historical Society, 1947)
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Gamage, Nelson W. A Short History of South Bristol, Maine (South Bristol: Rev. Harold W. Woodbury, n.d.)
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Hannah, Josh. Pemaquid Peninsula: A Midcoast Maine History (Charleston: The History Press, 2015)
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Hope, Pete. “The Birth of Bristol“, Old Bristol Historical Society Newsletter, Spring 2015
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Hope, Pete. Far Out to Sea: A History of the Pemaquids (Newcastle: Lincoln County News, 2015)
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Hope, Pete. Two Harbors and a hill: The history of New Harbor (Bristol: self-published, n.d.)
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Johnston, John. A history of the towns of Bristol and Bremen in the state of Maine, including the Pemaquid settlement (Albany: Joel Munsell, 1873)
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Lewis, Ed. “Bristol’s Religious Heritage“. Talk series sponsored by the American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. New Harbor Methodist Church and Round Pond Methodist Church, May 16 and June 6, 1976. Lecture.
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Libby, Hilda. The Story of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse (Bristol: self-published, n.d.)
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Maine Philatelic Society, “Bristol Postal History,” , updated 2023.