Links

• Places to stay and eat in the area with directions for driving to New Sweden
  
• Aroostook Tourism site: visitaroostook.com

Town Sites

• New Sweden historic buildings and activities
  
• Stockholm attractions and seasonal activities
  
• Woodland history and museums
  
• School Union #122, our district schools (K-8)
  
• Caribou High School Colony students attend high school in Caribou.

Church Sites

• New Sweden Covenant Church

County Sites

• Aroostook County Government Website
  
• All Aroostook County Municipalities (from the County Government site)
  
• Welcome to Aroostook County, Maine tourism site
  
• Northern Maine Development Commission
  
• Maine Winter Sports Center

History

• Caribou Public Library website has a local history section. Of special interest is A Farmer Lives In Maine (1947) by George Whitneck. They are adding many historical photos.
  
• Northern Maine History from the NMDC site
  
• Aroostook, The First Sixty Years: A History of Maine's Largest County From its Earliest Beginning Up Through the Bloodless Aroostook War by Clarence A. Day (Link not working)
  
• Maine Memory Network Maine's statewide database of historical source documents
  
• Report On Discovery Research Fieldwork in the Swedish Colony by folklorist Matthew Shippee.
  
• Images of a Boom Town: Stockholm Maine 1881-1940 An On-line Photo Gallery of Stockholm, Maine History by Katherine Hoving. (Link not working)
  
• Peter Bolster's genealogy site talks about restoring the Old Henderson School in Woodland.
  
• First Settlers of New Sweden, Maine Jean Duncan has started (30/4/05) collecting information on the original 50 (or 51) settlers from Sweden who arrived July 23, 1870. There are photos. Includes links to her sources.
  
• Thomas Memorial Library in Cape Elizabeth, Maine has a short biography of the man many consider the "Father of the Swedish Colony", W.W. Thomas, Jr.
  
• Bio of William Widgery Thomas Jr. Another site with a biography W.W. Thomas, Jr.
  
• How We Grew A history of the Swedish Baptist churches in America. Talks about Caption Gustavus W. Schroeder who was (I think) the office agent in Sweden for the Maine Immigration Commission. Was religious freedom a reason for emigration?
  
• The History of Skiing in New England.

Acadian/Fanco-American

• "Interview with My Mother" By Joyce Miller, Dallas Texas a sometimes sad story that includes a description of Stockholm in the 1920's.
• The Upper St. John Valley "Includes communities in the valleys of the Allagash and the Fish Rivers in northern Aroostook County, and the valleys of the Green and Madawaska Rivers in Madawaska County- Also includes information on the rest of Aroostook County, Maine and on Victoria County, New Brunswick"
• Cyber-Sailing the St. John Valley website of the Grade 2 class at Dr. Levesque School in Frenchville, lots of photos and links.

Swedish Sites

• SWEA, Swedish Women's Educational Association Inc., organization for Swedish speaking women who live or have lived abroad.
  
• Montreal Swedish Club, and their Links page (in Swedish)
  
• New York City Swedish Site
• http://www-lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/swe-eng.shtml
• http://www.swedishamericanhist.org/arnoldbarton.html
• http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm
• http://www.helsingebilder.se/utsida/index.asp Here you will find pictures of culture and historical interest from Hälsingland, Sweden – from the 1860s till today

Businesses

• Hearth-Hearts.com Crafted items made from the heart. Shelly Timber's web-store.
  
• A nice description of Sven Bodeson's family farm.
• Simply Scandinavian Foods Mary Grant's imported Scandinavian goodies, 469 Stevens Ave, Portland, ME
  
• Simply Scandinavian Tom Grant's Scandinavian Imports, 75 Market Street, Portland, ME
  
• mainerec.com Web host for many local commercial sites

Maps

• Colony Map created for Maine's Historic 1870 Swedish Colony: History, Map, and Tourguide. Many sites and roads identified.
  
• Historic USGS Maps of New Sweden, Maine
       1930 and 1951 topographical maps at UNH site
  
• Northern Aroostook Tourism Map (pdf format)
  
• Road Map from Yahoo maps
  
• Census Bureau Map
  
• Maine State Office of GIS / Internet Mapping Page
  
• Aerial photos/topographic map
  
• Terrafly.com has some color satellite images of the area but I had a hard time figuring-out the site.

Event Lists

• Maine.info great list of links

Please suggest a link to be included here. Send email to: John Hede, jhede@mfx.net and Bill Duncan, duncan@ainop.com.