Maine Memory Network

Trecartin Tin Shop building, Lubec, 1975, 1975

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: 1975 Location: Lubec Media: Kodachrome slide

Water Street looking south, Lubec, ca. 1949, ca. 1949

Contributed by: Lubec Historical Society Date: circa 1949 Location: Lubec Media: Postcard

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.

The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History

After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"… can throw a stone from water to water at high tide.” Dr. Small, a Deer Isle man who served as a doctor on Swan’s Island between the years 1891 and…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"Note how the workers appear, casually working and walking atop the I-beam. Higher tides than normal come during new moons, as occurred on a cold…"