NEWCASTLE, MAINE
TOWN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WEB SITE
P.O. Box 386 (4 Pump Street)
Newcastle, ME 04553
207-563-3441
207-563-6995 (Fax)
TOWN GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL WEB SITE
NEWCASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
www.newcastlemainehistoricalsociety.org
P. O. Box 482; (Taniscot Building on Corner of Pump & Main Streets)
Newcastle, ME 04553
TEL: 207-563-8233
Email: newcastlehistoricalsociety@hotmail.com
Summer Hours:
Saturdays in July & August
10 AM - 2 PM
NEWCASTLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
2010 SPEAKERS
www.newcastlemainehistoricalsociety.org
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ADMISSION FREE TO ALL EVENTS
DONATIONS ACCEPTED
July 7, 2010
7:00 PM
Sheepscot History with its Residents
Presented by Leigh Sprague & Tracy Verney,
Sheepscot Historians
Newcastle Community Room on River Road
(Adjacent to Taniscot Fire Engine Company)
Sheepscot residents will chat about their village, which is the oldest village in Newcastle. Its history stretches back thousands of years. Sheepscot has both prehistoric and historic archaeological sites and is home to the oldest road in the State of Maine, the King’s Highway. The Village of Sheepscot was settled during the 18th and 19th centuries and is considered today as one of the few places in the United States that appears almost exactly as it did one hundred years ago.
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August 4, 2010
7:00 PM
"My Dwelling Stood on a High Knoll
Overlooking Said Damariscotty River..."
Discovery and Archaeological Investigation and Interpretation of the 17th-Century Walter Phillips Farmstead
Presented by Tim Dinsmore, Archeologist
SKIDOMPHA Library
Main Street in Damariscotta
Dinsmore will present a slide presentation on the archaeological work he directed on the 17th-century Walter Phillips Homestead site located along the west bank of the Damariscotta River in Newcastle. He will explain site location through a careful study of primary documents and archaeological surveys across 3 residential properties that culminated in a major archaeological excavation in 2005. Walter Phillips was one of only six Anglo-American settlers to have settled the upper Damariscotta River. Phillips was an extensive land owner who owned much of Newcastle, Nobleboro and Jefferson. Phillips was also appointed clerk of for the Duke of York when this part of Maine fell under New York authority.
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September 1, 2010
7:00 PM
Newcastle Historical Society
Dinsmore-Flye Photographic Collection
Slide show with audience discussions of old pictures of local towns surrounding Newcastle.
Newcastle Community Room on River Road
(Adjacent to Taniscot Fire Engine Company)
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October 6 , 2010
7:00 PM
Newcastle Historical Society
Annual Business Meeting & Pot Luck Supper
Newcastle Community Room on River Road
(Adjacent to Taniscot Fire Station)
President - Edmee Dejean
Vice President - Forrest C.Hunt
Secretary - Elizabeth Evans
Treasurer - Christopher I. Rice
Trustees - Scott Brooke
Arthur Dexter
*Leah W. Sprague
*(Appointed by Select Board)
Honorary Trusetee - Arlene Cole
MEETINGS
1st Wednesday Each Month
(Except January, February & March)
7:00 P.M.
Community Room on River Road
No Charge to Attend.
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 60,000 negatives and photographs, books, a complete cemetery listing from 1758 to 2004, 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.
