Keywords: Number One Pond
Item 21456
Goodall Worsted Factory Under Construction, Sanford, 1922
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: 1922-09-16 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 9795
12 Lincoln Street, Sanford, ca. 1914
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1914 Location: Sanford Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Mainers began propagating fish to stock ponds and lakes in the mid 19th century. The state got into the business in the latter part of the century, first concentrating on Atlantic salmon, then moving into raising other species for stocking rivers, lakes, and ponds.
Exhibit
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.
Site Page
Surry by the Bay - Nineteenth Century
"Toddy Pond itself was not a pond, but rather a river valley known as Eastern River until 1830 when dams were built to operate saw mills ."
Site Page
Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - National Blue Ribbon School
"The balloons represented the number of years since the Strong Elementary School was built. A ceremonial ground-breaking was being conducted, kicking…"
Story
Childhood Memories of Learning to Swim on Rangeley Lake
by Betty C.
Betty's two older sisters taught her how to swim on Rangeley Lake.
Story
Vietnam Memoirs
by David Chessey
MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND MY OBSERVATION OF NATIONWIDE OPINIONS CONCERNING THE “VIET NAM" WAR