Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Society records
Scope and Content note
Minutes and treasurer’s records, consisting primarily of correspondence, deeds, contracts, and other miscellaneous papers relating to the transfer of the society’s real estate and Civil War relics to the Fifth Maine Regiment Community Center and to the Maine Historical Society, respectively.
Dates
- Creation: 1888 - 1957
Creator
- Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Society (Organization)
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.
Administrative note
Formed in 1867 by members of 5th Maine Infantry Regiment and continued by their families and friends; dissolved 1954; Portland and Peaks Island, Maine.
Extent
0.5 Linear Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Gift of the estate of Mr. Charles F. Adams, through Mr. Willis A. Trafton, Jr., executor, July 5, 1978 (acc. no. MS86-21).
- Title
- Guide to the Fifth Maine Regiment Memorial Society records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Donna Knoblock, Library Volunteer, March 2025
- Date
- April 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository