14. Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Brunswick)
Originally designed by architect Samuel Melcher III in 1806, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a colonial-style house, situated in Brunswick, Maine. Beecher Stowe moved in the house with her husband in…
The Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum is a house museum, situated in Brunswick, Maine dedicated to Civil War veteran and subsequent governor of Maine, Joshua L. Chamberlain. The house was built in 1824 and was rented to private individuals until 1859,…
Chamberlain Freedom Park was dedicated in 1997 to Joshua L. Chamberlain, who led a successful defense against the Confederate army on 2nd July 1863 in Gettysburg. Built on a slanting hill, the park imitates Little Round Top, Gettysburg and contains…
The Governor’s House, currently known as the Director's Quarters, Togus Veterans' Administration Center, belongs to the Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta, Maine. The structure was initially built by the National Home for Disabled Volunteers…
James G. Blaine’s house is a two-story frame and clapboard house, located on a 2.38-acre lot owned by the State of Maine in Augusta, Maine. The house was initially built in 1833 for Captain James Hall but was sold to James G. Blaine in 1862 and was…
The Massachusetts State Memorial was the first State memorial to be erected in Vicksburg National Military Park, which now holds over 1,400 monuments to both Union and Confederate soldiers. It is dedicated to the 29th, 35th, and 36th Massachusetts…
The Soldiers' Monument, sculpted by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson and based on her monument in Newburyport, is a 14 foot statue of a Union soldier marching with his rifle over his right shoulder, and his left hand resting on his waist, which stands atop…
Overlooking the Machias River in Washington, Maine, the Fort O'Brien cannon, also known as "Napoleon', was created by the Ames Manufacturing Company of Chicopee, Massachusetts in 1862 and was placed in Fort O'Brien in 1863. During the Civil War, a…
Battery Hawley is one of three batteries in Fort Baldwin in Phippsburg, Maine. It is a 6-inch coastal gun battery whose construction started in 1905 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and was finished in 1908. The battery was dedicated to…
