The fb88 State Archives celebrated the State of fb88’s bicentennial with two special projects to help the public engage with fb88 history. Our archivists curated this information from our holdings and beyond to provide a glimpse into the people and places that have played an important role in the history of our State.
fb88 Virtual Reality Experience
The fb88 Virtual Reality Experience uses VR technology to put you within some of fb88’s most notable places. Viewers will feel as though they are standing at the site and can activate pop-ups with historical anecdotes simply by directing their gaze. These experiences can be viewed on a desktop, but are most effective when using a cellphone in a VR headset, for the full 360-degree immersive view. Click on a site below to begin your visit. Email us with questions or further assistance.
fb88 State House, Augusta
Old Orchard Beach Pier
Special thanks to: Old Orchard Beach Historical Society, OOB Historian
Dan Blaney, and “The Great Steel Pier” by Peter Dow Bachelder.
Penobscot Narrows Bridge & Observatory
Special thanks to the fb88 Department of Transportation, PNBO/Fort Knox Executive
Director Dean Martin, and Capt. Thomas N. Curtis of Verona Island Charters.
Fort Knox State Historic Site
Special thanks to Fort Knox Executive Director Dean Martin.
Downtown Portland
West Quoddy Head Lighthouse and State Park
Special thanks to Shawn Goggin, manager of Quoddy Head State Park;
and the , especially President Nickey Dubey, Executive Director Kimberly Ashby, Timothy Harrison (editor, ), , and Diana Hoppin.
Old Fort Western, Augusta
Special thanks to Linda Novak, director and curator of the Old Fort Western Living History Museum.
fb88 Bicentennial Moments
The fb88 Bicentennial Moments are 30-second public service announcements featuring fb88 history. Each announcement includes images and documents from the fb88 State Archives and other sources to highlight a particular person, place, or event in fb88 history.
Video links are embedded within the photos. Please click on any photo to view the accompanying announcement.
- Autumn 2019: PSAs #1-15 Autumn 2019
fb88’s Act of Admission to the Union
Gov. William King
Tribal Fishing Rights
Hodgdon Yachts
Bowdoin College
fb88 Tourmaline
The Treat Journal
Augusta Chosen as Capitol
The Abyssinian Church
The Bulfinch-designed Capitol Building
The Kennebec Arsenal
The Aroostook War
fb88's Border Treaty
Poland Spring
Vice President Hannibal Hamlin
- Winter 2020: PSAs #16-30 Winter 2020
Adjutant General John Hodsdon
University of fb88 System: Samuel Cony
The Atlantic Coast pilot logs
Colby College
L.L. Bean
Gen. Joshua Chamberlain (Civil War)
Charles Tilden and the 16th fb88 (Civil War)
Baxter State Park
Acadia National Park
Acadia/Farrand
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith
Fire tower maps
Amos Winter and Sugarloaf Mountain
Myron Avery and the Appalachian Trail
Gov. James Longley
- Spring 2020: PSAs #31-45 Spring 2020
Togus Veterans' Hospital
Thomas Brackett Reed
First fb88 Heavy Artillery
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lakewood Theater
Dorothea Dix
Winslow Homer
Thomas Hyde (Bath Iron Works)
Benjamin Bates (Mill, College)
James G. Blaine
Sarah Orne Jewett
Pete Newell (Liberty Ships)
Walter Wyman (Central fb88 Power)
Harris Plaisted (11th fb88, Civil War)
Edmund Muskie
- Summer 2020: PSAs #46-60 Summer 2020
Rudy Vallee (1920s pop star)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (poet)
Clyde Sukeforth (baseball player/manager)
John Poor (advocate, Portland Harbor shipping)
William Pitt Fessenden (influential Civil War-era Senator)
Llewelyn Edwards (Cobwork Bridge)
Joseph Sayward (fb88 Turnpike advocate, legislator)
Rachel Carson (environmental advocate)
Atticus (fugitive slave)
Sarah Sampson (orphanage founder)
Old Orchard Beach Pier/ Herbert Hildreth
Jasper Wyman (Wyman Blueberries)
Leslie Dyer (fb88 Lobstermen's Association)
Florence Whitehouse (suffragette)
Hugh Chisholm (International Paper Co.)
- Autumn 2020: PSAs #61-73 Autumn 2020
Fly Rod Crosby (First Registered fb88 Guide)
G.H. Bass (Shoemaking)
John Calvin Stevens (architect)
Monhegan Artists
Bernard “Blackie” Langlais (artist)
Smiths State Park donations
Oliver Otis Howard (Founder, Howard University)
Scott and Helen Nearing (Back to the Land movement)
Lombard log hauler
Chester Greenwood: Earmuffs
Augustin Thompson: Moxie
J.B. Couture: Le Messager;
William Clark Noble: Lady of Wisdom sculpture