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Legislature
- The Constitution of Maine, Maine Statutes, and legislative rules establish the organization of the Maine Legislature. The Senate is made up of 35 members, while the House of Representatives comprises 151 members. All members of both chambers are elected from single-member districts. Additionally, the House includes three non-voting members who are elected by the Penobscot Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, and the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, respectively, to represent their communities in the Legislature.
General Henry Sewall Papers - 8th Division Militia
- The militia book and personal papers belonging to General Henry Sewall (1752-1845) of Augusta, who served in the Revolutionary War and wintered at Valley Forge in 1778. After the war, Sewall opened a store at Fort Western in Augusta and served as Division Inspector, Brigadier and Major General of the 8th Division of the Maine militia.
Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI)
- The Augusta Mental Health Institute (AMHI) was founded in 1840 as the Maine Insane Hospital. Mental health advocate Dorothea Dix consulted on the project, and believed fresh air and removal from the stresses of society were important for patient care. Tragically, 27 patients died when the hospital caught fire on December 4, 1850. The hospital’s campus expanded over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and it was known under a variety of names: the Augusta Insane Asylum, Augusta State Hospital (1913), and finally the Augusta Mental Health Institute (1973). AMHI’s aging infrastructure was closed as a medical facility in 2004, replaced by Riverview Psychiatric Center on the same campus. The AMHI campus has undergone several renovation campaigns and now houses multiple state agencies.