Maine Memory Network

Sea smoke rising on a winter day, Cutler, 1957

Contributed by: Maine Seacoast Mission Date: 1957 Location: Cutler Media: Photographic print

Smoke cloud, Saco, 1953

Contributed by: Dyer Library/Saco Museum Date: 1953-03-12 Location: Saco Media: Photographic print

49 Center Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: Felice Giampetruzzi Use: Dwelling & Store

228-234 Franklin Street, Portland, 1924

Owner in 1924: David Wyer & Co. Use: Smoke House

Le Théâtre

Lewiston, Maine's second largest city, was long looked upon by many as a mill town with grimy smoke stacks, crowded tenements, low-paying jobs, sleazy clubs and little by way of refinement, except for Bates College. Yet, a noted Québec historian, Robert Rumilly, described it as "the French Athens of New England."

Laboring in Maine

Workers in Maine have labored in factories, on farms, in the woods, on the water, among other locales. Many of Maine's occupations have been determined by the state's climate and geographical features.

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Cities of Smoke and Soot

"Cities of Smoke and Soot Aftermath of Harmon's Corner Fire, 1911McArthur Public Library Headline about the fire which consumed Biddeford's…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - EXHIBITS

"… University of Southern Maine CITIES OF SMOKE AND SOOT An introduction to Biddeford and Saco's tumultuous fire history."

Monument Square 1967
by C. Michael Lewis

The background story and research behind a commissioned painting of Monument Square.

How Mon-Oncle France came to Les-États
by Michael Parent

How Mon-Oncle France came to the United States.