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
• New Sweden Cemetery Association Facebook Page
  
• 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
• New Sweden GA Lutheran Church
• New Sweden First Baptist 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

Recreation

• http://www.exploremaine.org/bike/st_john.html

History

• Echoes Magazine: The Northern Maine Journal of Rural Culture www.echoesofmaine.com
• 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.
• Nylander Museum, Caribou, http://www.nylandermuseum.org
  includes a local natural history collection by Olaf Nylander of Woodland. Good links page. They also have a great listing of Aroostook County Museums.
• 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. (I captured her site and have posted it here. Apologies to Katherine but it's a great site.)
  
• 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?
  
• ss City of Antwerp the ship of the first Colony settlers. S/S City of Antwerp, Inman Line has a listing of voyages including the 4 July, 1870, departure from Liverpool with the Swedish emmigrants.
• http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ME/
  Aroostook/state.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic
  _Places_listings_in_Aroostook_County,_Maine
• http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ME/
  Aroostook/districts.html

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.
• www.madawaskahistorical.org
• Acadian Village in Van Buren. They have a B&A RR building from Stockholm. www.connectmaine.com/acadianvillage/tour.html

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
• http://www.nordicmuseum.com

Businesses

• Monica's Scandinavian Imports monicasimports.com
• Stokdijk Farm and Greenhouse. http://stokdijkfarm.com
• A nice description of Sven the Bondeson'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
• CrownOfMaineProductions.com Brenda and Alan Jepson's documentary films and gifts
• WilliamLDuncan.com photography and design

Maps

• Google Maps has drive-by of the New Sweden Museum
• Mapquest has the most detailed aerial photo. The red star is right on top of the New Sweden Capitol Museum.
• 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
• Bill Duncan has collected a list of event links within a days drive from here

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