Maine Memory Network

Route 1, Houlton, ca. 1950

Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1950 Location: Houlton Media: Photographic print

Central School, New Sweden, 1938

Contributed by: New Sweden Historical Society Date: 1938 Location: New Sweden Media: Photographic print

Sketches of Proposed Information Building at Junction of Route One and Toll Highway at Kittery Maine, Kittery, 1950

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1950 Location: Kittery Client: Maine Development Commission Architect: Eaton W. Tarbell

Maine Audubon Society Visitors' Center, Falmouth, 1994-1995

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1994–1995 Location: Falmouth Client: Maine Audubon Architect: Carol A. Wilson; Van Dam & Renner/Carol A. Wilson Architects

Reading, Writing and 'Rithmetic: Brooklin Schools

When Brooklin, located on the Blue Hill Peninsula, was incorporated in 1849, there were ten school districts and nine one-room school houses. As the years went by, population changes affected the location and number of schools in the area. State requirements began to determine ways that student's education would be handled. Regardless, education of the Brooklin students always remained a high priority for the town.

Back to School

Public education has been a part of Maine since Euro-American settlement began to stabilize in the early eighteenth century. But not until the end of the nineteenth century was public education really compulsory in Maine.

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Strong's History - Page 3 of 4

"The first mail route to Strong was established in 1819. These men rode through the villages on horseback with their mailbags."

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Prison Industries

"… on the opposite corner of Wadsworth Street and Route One, directly adjacent to the prison grounds, was built in 1852 as a bank."

The only letter to survive World War II
by Cyrene Slegona

Only one of many letters my father sent to his wife remained after he came home from World War II.

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.