Stories
Narrative, evidence, places and unanswered questions in one thread. Each story is built only from material this history actually holds.
The Ottawa House
A hotel that shaped an island for sixty years, burned in a single day, and left almost nothing you can point at.
Christopher Levett's 1623 Settlement
One winter, ten men, and four hundred years of argument about where they actually were.
Not written yet — and why
- Fort Levett & Battery Foote
Needs — Original construction and armament records, a fort plan sheet showing building and fire-control station positions, and any garrison photographs beyond MMN #105419.
- Calumet Avenue Through Time
Needs — Photographs of the avenue in any period, and a modern set of matched viewpoint photographs for the Then / Now comparisons.
- The Dixie Bull Legend
Needs — The earliest printed version of the Cushing attribution — who first placed Bull on this island, and when. Without that the story is a rumour about a rumour.
- Before Cushing Island
Needs — Guidance and, ideally, collaboration from Wabanaki communities, plus any published Maine Historic Preservation Commission survey covering the island.