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Council authorizes grant application to digitize early North Yarmouth records

Town Council (joint workshop with Planning Board and Comprehensive Plan Committee) · October 28, 2025

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Summary

Prince Memorial Library and the North Yarmouth Historical Society will apply for a Maine Semiquincentennial grant to scan and transcribe more than 1,600 pages of 17th- and 18th-century records for upload to the Maine Digital repository; council authorized the application unanimously.

Prince Memorial Library Director Stacy Mazer and Julia Walters of the North Yarmouth Historical Society asked the council on Oct. 27 to authorize submission of a Maine Semiquincentennial Commission grant application to digitize and publicize a set of early municipal records.

Project scope: The partners plan to scan and transcribe roughly 1,600 pages from two record sets: the Ancient North Yarmouth proprietors records (1681–1809)…

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