Maine Memory Network

Electrical first-aid booklet, 1915

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1915 Media: Ink on paper

Electric shock first-aid poster, ca. 1910

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1910 Media: Ink on paper

Wired! How Electricity Came to Maine

As early as 1633, entrepreneurs along the Piscataqua River in southern Maine utilized the force of the river to power a sawmill, recognizing the potential of the area's natural power sources, but it was not until the 1890s that technology made widespread electricity a reality -- and even then, consumers had to be urged to use it.

Looking Out: Maine's Fire Towers

Maine, the most heavily forested state in the nation, had the first continuously operational fire lookout tower, beginning a system of fire prevention that lasted much of the twentieth century.

Maine Conservation Corps

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Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… this stamped lithographed steel button with the safety pin on the rear, like those still manufactured a century later."

My father, Earle Ahlquist, served during World War II
by Earlene Chadbourne

Earle Ahlquist used his Maine common sense during his Marine service and to survive Iwo Jima

History of Forest Gardens
by Gary Libby

This is a history of one of Portland's oldest local bars