Some of those on the island were institutionalized and sterilized only to have their ancestor's bodies later exhumed from their graves. "That’s the level of hatred that was coming from a state level down.”
Maine State Archivist Kate McBrien will present a history of Malaga Island this week and the events that led the state to forcibly remove residents from their island home in 1912.
More than a century ago, the state wiped out the coastal community, institutionalizing its mixed-race population. The monument at Pineland Farms promises we'll always remember.
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