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The Swedish language can sometimes still be heard in the older generation. The New Sweden Folk Dancers typically perform at many of the Swedish celebrations and Swedish foods are known to grace the tables. New Sweden was the home of Einar Gustafson, who was the archetype of the child for whom the Jimmy Fund was named.
The Larsson–Noak Historic District encompasses a collection of buildings constructed by Swedish immigrants to northern Maine between about 1888 and 1930. The district is focused on a cluster of four buildings on Station Road, northeast of the center of New Sweden, Maine. Notable among these is the c. 1888 Larsson-Ostlund House, which is the ...
Location of Aroostook County in Maine. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Aroostook County, Maine.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.
The Jacobson House is set on the west side of New Sweden Road, near the top of what is now called Jacobson Hill. The 3-acre (1.2 ha) property includes, in addition to the house, a 1936 gambrel-roofed barn (located southwest of the house), and an heirloom orchard that includes twelve apple trees planted by Pehr Jacobson.
The Gustaf Adolph Lutheran Church is set on the east side of Capitol Hill Road, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of its junction with New Sweden Road (Maine State Route 161). The church is a single-story wood frame structure whose exterior is finished in stucco. Its windows are uniformly Gothic style lancet-arch windows.
The Nicholas P. Clase House is a historic house on the south side of Station Road, west of its junction with Capitol Hill Road, in New Sweden, Maine.It is a log structure, built in 1874 by a Swedish immigrant to the area, and is one of a small number of surviving log structures in Maine built using Swedish techniques.
Timmerhuset is set on knoll overlooking the Little Madawaska River off Jemtland Road in northern New Sweden, a rural community in far northern Aroostook County, Maine. It is a modest 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story log structure, oriented facing south, with a side gable roof that has a small gable centered on the southern face. It is built out of hand-hewn ...
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...