This collection consists of materials collected by Gerry Morin concerning various people, businesses, and events in Aroostook County. Included are correspondence, financial records (including accounts, bills of sale, and telephone bills), land documents, images, and maps. The financial records are for many businesses, both in Aroostook County and elsewhere, many in retail and agriculture, including American Agricultural Chemical Co. The telephone bills are from three separate telephone companies: White Mountain Telephone Company, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Aroostook Telephone and Telegraph Company. Also included are twenty-two issues from various newspapers, 1837-1841, containing articles on the Northeastern Boundary dispute. Included in the images are cabinet cards of Major William Dickey and Hannibal Hamlin. A large portion of the correspondence and the financial records concerns Horace G. Richards of Fort Fairfield, Maine, and his brother, George W. Richards of Houlton, Maine, as well as A.S. Richards of Van Buren, Maine. George W. Richards owned G.W. Richards and Co., a merchant of dry goods and other "small wares." The collection also contains sheet music for "Come to the Heart that is Thine," from an opera based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Evangeline. Note that the Archives hold other collections associated with Gerry Morin.
