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BORDER-LEFT: medium none; WIDTH: 325px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; MARGIN-LEFT: 8px; BORDER-TOP: medium none; MARGIN-RIGHT: 8px; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"> <p>Founded in 1864, the Bangor Historical Society has been collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of the Penobscot Valley for over 145 years.</p> <hr style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 2px" /> <table style="WIDTH: 323px; BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse; HEIGHT: 266px"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none"> <link rel="File-List" href="file:///Users/bettsswanton/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Clipboard/msoclip1/01/clip_clip_filelist.xml" /> <!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml><w:WordDocument><w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom><w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery><w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery><w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin/></w:WordDocument></xml><![endif] --> <style> <!-- @font-face { font-family: Times New Roman; 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It was designed to meet the mid-19th century city dweller's desire for a romanticized rural landscape. Many of Maine's statesmen, military and civic leaders are entombed here, along with some of the infamous characters whose colorful legends still survive. <a href="toursandactivities.htm">View tour schedule.</a><br /> </p> <div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"> <hr style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 2px" /> Bangor Museum and History Center is a proud member of Bangor Arts<br /> <img border="0" alt="" src="/assets/barts_logo.gif" /><br /> <hr style="WIDTH: 100%; HEIGHT: 0px" /> <br /> <br /> <style> <!-- <p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">The Great Fire of 1911 Exhibit &amp; the 4th Grade Curators ýÿ <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"></span>Visit the exhibit at the Hill House <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Helvetica;">For the second year, Mrs. Schmickýÿs fourth grade class of Fairmount School is collaborating with Bangor Museum and History Center to guest curate the summer exhibit at the Thomas A. Hill House. Designed by Mrs. Schmick and museum curator Dana Lippitt, as a service-learning project, the students researched the Bangor Fire of 1911. Using newspaper accounts, letters and other primary source material from the Museumýÿs archives, they wrote labels for photographs of the fire from their own creative interpretations of the ýÿvoicesýÿ of people who experienced it. 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