Maine Memory Network

Captain Lewy steamboat, Princeton, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Princeton Public Library Date: circa 1910 Location: Princeton Media: Photographic print

James Goff affidavit on Ebenezer Cole pension request, Danville, ca. 1848

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1848 Location: Danville Media: Ink on paper

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Notorious: Maine Crime in the Public Eye, 1690–1940 - Murder on the High Seas: The Case of Captain John Connor and the Mary

"… attempted to sell the ship’s sundry goods, which drew the attention of local authorities. The recently enacted United States Constitution placed…"

Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a man and a poet of New England conscience. He was influenced by his ancestry and his Portland boyhood home and experience.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - III. Boom, bustle, bust: The Steamboat Years to WWII

"… short lived, however; the bounty of land out West drew away many Maine farmers, and the Civil War (1860-1864) marked an end to the age of East…"

Historic Hallowell - Shipbuilders, Sailors and Whaling Men

"One, Captain John Drew, adopted the pen name “Kennebecker” and for 17 years wrote a popular column about life at sea for the Boston Journal."