Historical+Society

Theresa took you to the Farmington Historical Society on Saturday to help her with her project. She is one of the members of a team of people in Farmington that received a grant to digitize Farmington's history. The team consists of the Farmington Historical Society, Farmington Public Library, Mount Blue Middle School, The Center for Community GIS, and University of Maine at Farmington's Secondary /Middle Education Department. They are scanning old photos and documents and photographing historical objects that are important to Farmington's history. Then they will upload the digitized version of these artifacts to the Maine Memory Network, an online museum about the history of Maine. They will also make a Web site all about Farmington's history and use the artifacts to illustrate the Web pages. It's a very exciting project. Here you are helping the team with their scanning. Theresa promises to send the URL to you when the Web site is finished. The team thanks you for your help. It takes a lot of volunteers to accomplish a project like this and every hour of work donated by helpers like you makes a big difference.