Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill Consolidated School, Blue Hill, 1939, 1939

Contributed by: Blue Hill Public Library Date: 1939 Location: Blue Hill Media: Postcard

Blue Hill Mountain fire tower, Blue Hill, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Blue Hill Historical Society Date: circa 1950 Location: Blue Hill Media: Photograph on paper

Rum, Riot, and Reform - 1865 to 1919: The Drys Gain New Adherents and Leaders

"… in founding reform groups known for using red or blue ribbons as their symbols. Dr. Joseph E. Turner of Bath was one of the first medical…"

Patriotism Shared

Post office clerks began collecting strong red, white, and blue string, rolling it onto a ball and passing it on to the next post office to express their support for the Union effort in the Civil War. Accompanying the ball was this paper scroll on which the clerks wrote messages and sometimes drew images.

Freedom & Captivity Portal

The Freedom & Captivity digital collection in the Maine Memory Network, and the complete digital archive housed at Colby Special Collections, is a repository of personal testimonies, ephemera, memorabilia, artifacts, and visual materials that capture multiple dimensions of the experiences of incarceration for individuals, families, and communities, as well as for survivors of harm.

Bath's Historic Downtown - The Sagadahoc County Courthouse

"… an addition made out of cement blocks with a blue belt was built on the back of the courthouse."

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars

John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne

Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.