Maine Memory Network

Gravel road by the Ossipee River in Cornish, 1937

Contributed by: Maine State Archives Date: 1937 Location: Cornish Media: Silver Print Photograph

Lake Superior, ca. 1820

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1820 Media: Ink on paper

Umbazooksus & Beyond

Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.

Designing Acadia

For one hundred years, Acadia National Park has captured the American imagination and stood as the most recognizable symbol of Maine’s important natural history and identity. This exhibit highlights Maine Memory content relating to Acadia and Mount Desert Island.

Historic Hallowell - Timeline of Cyclone

"Timbers, bricks, gravel, and tarred paper began to fly around his head as Brown ran to the other end of the mill."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - V. A Cascade of Booms & Busts (1790-1865) - Page 3 of 3

"… them for use, and in removing loom from the gravel pit and spreading it upon the waste land near by, and such other work as we could procure for…"